In the middle of the night, outside a small village in the mountains.
Two black figures tiptoed into the village, and then trotted all the way to Nicholas Wang Laodan's house. They pushed the door open with their hands, but the house was still dark.
But as soon as the two black figures entered the house, they saw a looming fire under the corner, and a deep voice came over: "You are really here again."
Wang Laodan smoked a cigarette and stared at Wang Xuanzhen and Xiang Que. He waved and said, "Come and sit down. I've been waiting for you all day."
"Did you know we would come back?"
"Well, I can read the desire and doubts hidden in your hearts from your eyes. I know that you will definitely come back to the village again," Wang Laodan said enigmatically.
Xiang Que was happy and asked: "Then what else can you read from our eyes now?"
Wang Laodan took a slow drag on his cigarette and said: "You look like a tiger. My damn eyes are not microscopes. It's so dark in this room that I can't even distinguish male from female. What else can I see in your eyes?"
Hey, this kid is so heartless."
Xiang Que was speechless. It was so embarrassing to be looked down upon by someone who had eaten a lot of food.
Wang Laodan was the only one in the room, but Liu Dehua and Xu Tiezhu were not there. Wang Xuanzhen asked where those two people had gone.
Wang Laodan shook his head and said nothing, but asked: "Did you go to the village?"
"Well, I went there and was kicked out again." Xiang Que asked curiously, "How do you know we will come back again?"
Wang Laodan took out a candle and lit it between the three of them. The dim candlelight was erratic, but it was still clear that his face was a little more pale and less bloody than a day ago, and there were abnormal bags under his eyes.
His face turned black, and his whole person looked listless and less popular, as if he had stayed up for several days and nights without sleeping.
"How did you develop such virtue after not seeing me for a day?" Wang Xuanzhen asked in astonishment.
Wang Laodan laughed dryly and smashed his lips, and said in a hoarse voice: "Isn't it normal for a dying person to become worse day by day? If you come a few days later, I may not be able to get up to see you.
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"That's not right..." Xiang Que came close to Wang Laodan's face, stared at it carefully for a few times and then said: "The energy in his body is losing faster, but there is no death energy.
, He is not a short-lived person, let alone a few days, even if it takes a few years, he may not die."
Wang Xuanzhen scolded: "You old guy, are you trying to win our sympathy?"
Wang Laodan said calmly: "My sympathy is useless. It can be exchanged for money or rice. Do you have to sympathize with me?"
As Wang Laodan said this, he pulled out a rattan box from behind. After opening the box, three dark earthen jars were revealed. Then he opened one of the lids and an unpleasant smell came out. Wang
Lao Dan rolled up his sleeves and put his hand into the mouth of the jar.
Suddenly there was a rustling sound in the earthen jar, and Xiang Que and Wang Xuanzhen saw a ten centimeter-long purple centipede crawling up his arm, all the way up, and all the way to Wang Laodan's face.
, the centipede's head suddenly poked his nostril, and then slowly its entire body got in.
Wang Xuanzhen swallowed his saliva and muttered: "This Mi Tai gave me goosebumps all over."
After the ten-centimeter-long centipede submerged into Wang Laodan's nostril, Wang Laodan took off his clothes again, revealing a skinny frame, with a bulge of more than ten centimeters long bulging out from his chest and abdomen.
Squirming slowly.
Centipedes are also called centipedes. They can be found everywhere, both in the north and the south, but this was the first time they saw a centipede crawling into a human body, and the man still let the centipede crawl in willingly.
"You also raise Gu? Isn't this thing patented by the Miao people?" Xiang Que asked in surprise.
Wang Laodan put on his clothes again and said with a smile: "Who said I raised gu?"
"Then... what's going on with that bug on your body?"
"Someone is cultivating worms on me"
Through Wang Laodan's narration, Xiang Que and Wang Xuanzhen understood what this weird village in the mountains was all about.
About thirty years ago, the people in the village were still Miao people. Later, I don’t know when all the Miao people in the village moved away, but the village was not empty. Instead, many outsiders moved in and took root.
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Some of the people who entered the village late had committed crimes outside and had nowhere to escape, so they hid in the mountains. They didn't want to be caught and couldn't go home, so they had to stay here.
There are also some homeless homeless people who have nowhere to go. These people are not swindlers who make a living by begging, but real homeless people, with nothing to live on and no one to rely on.
After the original Miao people moved away, these later people formed this village. At first, the later villagers still knew how to make a living by farming at sunrise and resting at sundown, but slowly they found that no matter how hard they tried, it was useless.
The food they grew was not even enough to fill their stomachs, let alone exchange for money, and those who had committed crimes and fled were unable to show their faces. Over time, the people who went to the village changed their minds and began to live a casual life.
Then one day, a group of black seedlings came to the village. They negotiated a deal with the villagers, asking these villagers to raise Gu for them while the black seedlings would provide them with their daily needs. They did not hesitate to the villagers who were already full of helplessness in their lives.
He nodded in agreement.
This transaction has continued to this day, with more than a dozen or twenty new people joining the village every year, and people dying in the village every year.
"Is this using your body to support Gu? Are you really willing to keep raising it, not knowing that this thing will shorten your life? Damn it, even if there are bugs burrowing into your body, it is quite uncomfortable. How disgusting.
Wang Xuanzhen asked in confusion.
"Yes, we have known about it since we came to this village, and we also saw with our own eyes that someone was hollowed out by the poison and then died." Wang Laodan responded calmly.
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"Haha, do you think there is any difference between those of us who live ten years and those who live twenty years? Let me tell you, there is no difference at all. Most of the people who come to this village have no attachment to life. They just
They don’t have the courage to know their own lives with their own hands, but that doesn’t stop them from living their lives and dying slowly. Let me tell you, when someone in this village dies, they die with a smile on their face, and most of them have no regrets.”
"Including you?"
"Well, I don't regret it, but I regret it." Wang Laodan said sadly: "At my age, I can't talk about regrets, but I regret bringing those two children here. They are still young.
There is really no need to stay in this village and become a useless person when you are in your twenties."
Xu Tiezhu and Liu Dehua were two orphans that Wang Laodan picked up when he was begging outside. He also named these two children. They were only four or five years old when he picked them up. Wang Laodan took them to beg.
For several years, until the child was ten years old, begging was no longer easy to do. Basically, the things he begged every day were not even enough to fill his stomach.
Later, Wang Laodan heard by chance that there was a village in Guizhou where people could be fed and raised for free on condition that they would raise Gu insects for the local Miao people, so he came over with his two children.
At the beginning, Wang Laodan negotiated with Hei Miao to raise Gu in exchange for food. Xu Tiezhu and Liu Dehua did not raise it. However, this situation only lasted for a year or two. One day, Wang Laodan suddenly discovered that the two of them also had Gu.