Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

The four of them stopped talking immediately, and the voice seemed to stop suddenly, and there was no movement for a long time.Recently, I have encountered too many such situations. I really don’t like the environment that is too quiet. The surrounding area is scary. Four people doing this and waiting for the strange noise that may appear at any time in the darkness is really very frustrating. It's frustrating. I coughed and said to them: "Let's not stay here, what should we do? Get out as soon as possible! After a long time, there must be nothing good!" After speaking, I looked at the cocoons lined up, and squatted next to the one I opened just now. Carefully cut it open, revealing the face of the person inside.

"Ah!" Heizi shouted emotionally, "Brother! This is my brother!" After speaking, he rushed forward, stared at the people inside and kept calling. Seeing this, Mao Jindao immediately stepped forward to persuade him not to get excited, then turned to us and said, "Look at these two people who disappeared at the same time, they are lined up together, and they happen to be at the corner of the first row. We caught them, let's open the two next to them for Heizi to identify, and then each of us will carry one on our back and hurry away!" Er Xia whispered: "Huanzi! Carrying such a thing is not a pleasant thing. What if the guy here wakes up and bites us?"

I said to him: "Don't talk nonsense, save people quickly. The current situation does not allow it. I can only rescue these four first. I don't know if they can return to normal." The other two, after being confirmed by Heizi, the four of them each carried one on their backs and walked back. I don't know if it's really lucky or what's going on, but we didn't encounter any danger this time, let alone a big snake, and we didn't even encounter a small grass snake.We carried these people back to Heizi's bamboo building, took a short rest and gasped for breath, Heizi found an ox cart, and the four of us drove those people back to Heizi's house overnight.

The place where Heizi’s house is located is considered a village, with hundreds of households, surrounded by beautiful hills and mountains, with layers of paddy fields, and the residents in beautiful ethnic costumes... I thought my My hometown is already considered a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, but compared with the paradise here, I have to admit that it is still the original ecology here. Here is a hodgepodge, Bai, Naxi, Miao and other ethnic minority residents have been integrated together, because it is located in the mountains, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, the people here are almost isolated from the world, and there is no electricity here, the light source is basically By oil lamps and torches.To be honest, if I hadn't come here myself, I wouldn't believe that such a place still exists. If I hadn't been clear-headed, I really wonder if I came here hundreds of years ago.

The leader here is an old man in his sixties. The locals don’t call him the village head, they call him the patriarch. We don’t know which clan he is, but he is wearing a black waistcoat-like clothes and black bloomers. , with a black turban on his head and black cloth shoes on his corners, all in all black, he doesn't feel like a Han nationality.According to Heizi, the patriarch's ancestors were famous Gu masters, and the patriarch is also a master of Gu art, but now he seldom uses it, and started to study medicine. The next day, we carried the people in the cocoon to the patriarch's house, where the patriarch was in charge of treating them.

At this moment, I was sitting on the sidelines relieved. Last night, I was so frightened and exhausted that I couldn’t keep my eyes open, and kept dozing off; Er Xia was full of energy, and kept teaching those children to play with him. Flashlights, mobile phones and other gadgets. When this person was rescued, he thought there was nothing wrong with us, but who knew that he hadn’t slept yet, and was dragged to "sit together" by a group of people. Heizi explained that it meant eating, that is, you sit while others follow Picking food and pouring wine for you one by one, this is a meal or reward meal that the locals generally express their gratitude. Only then did I realize that this must be the kind invitation of the family members of the few people we rescued.

This "sitting around" almost broke my stomach. At that time, I didn't know the many etiquettes of this ethnic minority, so I didn't dare to neglect. As long as others made a toast, we would toast.This place is not completely isolated from the outside world. Some young people like Heizi in the village even go out to do business, so there is not much difficulty in language.But they still maintain the habits of the people in the mountains. For example, they don’t drink beer, and all of them are the kind of liquor brewed in the village. The purity is definitely higher than that of Red Star Erguotou. In the afternoon, he was finally carried back.

This feeling lasted until the next morning, when I woke up and found myself lying shirtless on a bamboo cool bed. I was completely awake from the wine at the moment, and a breeze blew by, which was cool and pleasant, and it was indescribably comfortable. Turning around, he saw that the big cool bed next to him was empty, and Er Xia and Mao Jindao had already woken up and left. I stretched my lower body comfortably, got up and prepared to get dressed, when I lowered my head, I suddenly found a long scar on my stomach, which was two or three centimeters below the navel, and it was red and eye-catching.I thought it was accidentally scratched somewhere, so I stretched out my hand and touched it carefully, and when I touched it, it started to itch, and there was a faint burning pain.

While wondering, I saw Mao Jindao, Er Xia, and Hei Zi walking in. As soon as I woke up, Er Xia said directly: "Huanzi! I was about to call you. Mao Jindao woke up early in the morning and found himself There was such a thing growing on your body, and later we saw that you had grown it too, but I didn’t have it, so we called Heizi here!" As Er Xia spoke, he lifted Mao Jin Dao's jacket, but he saw a long red scratch-like thing on his bulging white belly. I don't know if it's because of the viewing angle. I didn't feel anything strange about it, but the one on Mao Jindao was longer than mine, it looked like a little snake no matter what.

My head got hot, and I blurted out: "Er Xia! Is this the snake sore that old man Liu told us about? How did I get this thing?" After speaking, I looked nervously at Heizi, then at myself That thing on the belly. Mao Jindao said: "Could this have something to do with the altar we went to? I grew this on my body just after I went there. Is it a bit too coincidental? I think it has something to do with that!" Er Xia replied: "According to what you said, how come Heizi and I have nothing to do? This thing won't still pick people?" I stopped talking, and looked down at the thing on my body. Maybe it was a psychological effect. The more I looked at it, the more it looked like a poisonous snake, and after a while, it seemed to grow a little longer.When I thought of the malignant sores on Zhang Puppet that Liu Shisan mentioned, I was even more nauseated and dizzy. I quickly took out the insect bite medicine I carried with me and applied it on the thing. The more itchy it is, the red part seems to have a tendency to spread when you scratch it with your hands.

"Huanzi! Don't worry!" Heizi patted me on the shoulder and said, "This is snake spirit possession! Our patriarch can cure this, not only him, but several people in the village. There are also foreigners who have grown this thing, and the hospital treats it. Not good, just come to us because of the name, and just pinch the patriarch once!" I asked in surprise, "No way! Even this hospital can't cure it? What do you mean by pinching?" Heizi replied: "It's nothing, go show it to the patriarch, make sure it will be fine once." After speaking, we came to the patriarch's house with skepticism. Seeing how confident he was, I felt a little relieved, and obediently lay shirtless on the cool bed with Mao Jindao.The patriarch looked carefully at the thing on our stomachs, nodded, turned around and entered the house, and suddenly took out a pair of sharp scissors. Maojindao and I sat up in fright almost at the same time. Xia hastily stepped forward and said, "Hey! Uncle Patriarch, this doesn't seem to be safe. If we need an operation, we'd better go to the hospital!" The patriarch said: "Two little elder brothers! This is a snake spirit possession. If you don't cut off its seven inches, it will grow longer and longer, and it will strangle people! Many people in the hospital don't like it, so they come to me , you are still looking for a hospital!" "Then you don't need to give us this thing..." I said while pointing to the sharp scissors in his hand. I was very shocked, and I thought to myself that this is too much, and it still hurts to death , looking at the patriarch puzzledly while thinking. The patriarch looked at us inexplicably, smiled softly, and then asked Heizi to take out a ball of white thread, and cut a piece with scissors. Snakehead, it's not cutting your stomach with scissors, don't be nervous, it will be fine in a while." I had no choice but to lie down obediently, seeing him put down the scissors, I was relieved. Looking down, I saw the patriarch looping the end of the white thread, measuring something on my stomach with his hands, muttering in my mouth, "Pinch the snake's head, beat the snake's head." A snake hits seven inches" or something like that. I listened to this inexplicable words, and cooperated helplessly. To be honest, I didn’t have much hope for this set of things. I accepted his “treatment” more out of politeness, so I watched and worried that the mountain road was so difficult. Let's go, how to get to the hospital in the county tomorrow. Afterwards, I saw him wrap the thing in with a white thread, measured it with both hands, stopped his finger on a spot on the red sore, and pinched it violently with his nails. Immediately, I felt a burst of pain and straightened up uncontrollably. When I looked up, I saw that he had tied the white thread a few knots, and then told me it was over.The whole process lasted less than three minutes, and I was at a loss as to what was involved. While hesitating, the patriarch took the white thread into his hand, rolled it into a ball, handed it to me and said, "Go outside, find a big rock to hold it down, and you're done!" "It's all right?" I wasn't surprised at the moment, more I couldn't laugh or cry, and even felt like being teased. This thing has no injections or medicines, so I just draw a white line on my body twice. What is the difference between the dog skin plaster.Thinking so, I ran out to find a big rock according to his intention, and pressed the ball of thread under it. In order to relieve my hatred, I specially smashed it with a stone. After returning, the Maojin knife had been "treated", and Heizi told us: "This is the snake soul wrapped around your body with a white thread, and if you cut off seven inches of it, it won't grow any longer, and it will soon disappear." It will disappear, the snake soul is trapped on the white thread, and it will dissipate after being pressed with a stone for a few days, otherwise it will run out and harm people if it has a chance." Mao Jindao and I looked at each other with a smile, neither of us took it seriously, we said some polite words, but we had already decided in our hearts that we had to go to the hospital for an operation to cut this piece of meat tomorrow. Immediately, Heizi showed joy and said, "Take a good rest for a day, and I will show you the day after tomorrow!"