Xiaomi was scared when she saw the old woman lying on the bed, and she immediately hid behind me.
If Xie Qirong hadn't pulled me away on a cart, I would have arrived.
After all, it was a step too late.
"My deepest condolences, Master Wu." I said.
"I'm not sad," Mr. Wu said calmly: "Alan won't have to suffer anymore. She has no friends but me, and I only have her. We have made an agreement long ago, not to be sad, not afraid, not to shed tears, but before and after
Just feet."
He looked at me and said: "She saw that there was something wrong with you last time you came here. After you left, Alan said that by next spring, there is a 50% chance that something will happen to you, and a 50% chance that nothing will happen to you.
She tells you to be careful of the bugs around you."
As he spoke, Master Wu looked at Xiaomi, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Xiaomi was hiding behind me, perhaps because she was afraid of Granny Alan, who was already dead on the bed, so she didn't dare to show her face.
Thinking of the big dumplings, I said: "Xiaomi, please go outside and wait for me. I will talk to Master Wu alone."
After Xiaomi went out and closed the door, Mr. Wu took out a bottle of liquor and two small glasses and said, "Let's drink some. I want to chat with you."
The old lady Alan on the bed had passed away, so Mr. Wu and I sat beside the bed and sat on the floor.
The wine was ordinary low-quality loose wine and very spicy. Mr. Wu poured two glasses and drank them all in one gulp.
He said to me like he was telling stories to his elders: "Young man, I was just like you when I was young. I was bold and greedy for money. I visited all the imperial tombs in Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi. I didn't have enough to eat at that time. We dug them out."
A bronze tripod and a bronze vessel can only be exchanged for two or three yuan to buy a bag of rice."
"When I was 30 years old, I made a mistake and was arrested by the whole province. I really couldn't survive, so I took a train to Guangxi with others." Speaking of this, Mr. Wu glanced at the grandma on the bed and said with a smile: "That's right.
It was there that I met Alan."
"Come, young man, touch one."
I raised my small glass and bumped it with Mr. Wu.
When low-quality wine was poured down the throat, it had no aroma and only made people feel burned.
Mr. Wu continued: "As for Alan, he couldn't even speak Mandarin at that time. He was selling cloth shoes with an old Miao girl. She was wearing big earrings at the time. She was so beautiful..."
I listened to a lot, and at the same time I also learned from Master Wu what Gu is, what Gu Po is, and what Zhi Po is.
I was young at the time, and my peers were still in school, but Master Wu’s words overturned my understanding.
The word "Gu" means "worm" on the top and "pan" on the bottom. Pan refers to the container. The separate meaning of this word is "worms are in the container." This container has two meanings. One is a bottle, but it is a container.
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This kind of thing really exists. I am convinced of this until now. Many people will dismiss it and sneer at it. It’s hard for me to say anything about it. You don’t have to believe it. Just listen to my story.
The disaster of witchcraft has existed since ancient times. It began to take shape in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and reached its peak in the Western Han Dynasty. In the following Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many records, and they were all formally written into laws.
It is clearly written in the "Han Code", "Tang Code", "Ming Code" and "Qing Code". Once a person who makes and raises voodoo is discovered, he will be sentenced for murder, and those who do not report the knowledge will also be exiled. Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor in the Yuan Dynasty
In his book, he said: "The poisoner, with his delusional spirit, takes many insects and snakes, hides them in utensils, and eats them for a hundred days until he gets one thing. The so-called poison is taken with the soup and wine, and the disaster is endless."
Chao Yuanfang said "hide it with a vessel." Master Wu told me that this vessel is a special container jar of the Miao people. This jar has a large belly and a small mouth, and the mouth is smaller than the ancient plum vase.
If you fill the jar with water and turn it over, because the mouth is too small, the water will not spray down, but will flow down drop by drop. Some people who collect antiques in Guangxi and Hunan have received it. They call this kind of jar,
"Didi jar, bug jar."
This kind of jars, like the gold jars used to contain bones in secondary burials, exist in small numbers in a certain area. They are so rare that no one in the city has ever seen them.
Mr. Wu said that there are two types of Miao people and Miao villages. One is where Miao and Han live together. This kind of village has radios, sewing machines, and even rice cookers for cooking. This kind of village does not have Miao rules and is just an ordinary village.
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There is also a Miao village hidden in the mountains. It is very isolated and remote. If you get lost, you can't find it. The villagers have their own clothes and their own language. They are very poor and have no electricity. The Miao girls here wear big earrings.
, the ear piercings are extremely large, which have been enlarged over the years.
