In the circle spread out by Ye Haoxuan, these dead leaf snakes no longer moved forward. They piled up in a pile and kept rolling in the circle. The scene looked a bit scary.
"What is this?" Jiumei looked at the small bottle in Ye Haoxuan's hand with some surprise. You must know that these dead leaf snakes are almost invincible in this area. They ignore any snake repellent powder, but Ye Haoxuan casually sprinkled some
, they don’t dare to move forward. What’s the reason?
"This is my homemade snake-killing powder." Ye Haoxuan said with a smile: "This is a little different from the snake-killing powder used by snake exterminators here. Most of the snake-killing powder used by snake exterminators here relies on smell, but
What I do is not based on smell, but on lethality."
"Can this kill snakes?" Jiumei obviously didn't believe it.
"Of course." Ye Haoxuan opened the bottle cap and sprinkled it on a dead leaf snake that luckily ran to him. As the bit of powder touched the snake, the snake's body immediately twisted violently, and its body
Waves of green smoke emitted, and within five seconds of swelling, the snake turned over on its belly and lay motionless on the ground. The areas where the powder was sprinkled on its body seemed to have been corroded by strong acid.
"It's amazing." Jiumei looked at the bottle in Ye Haoxuan's hand curiously and said, "Can this hurt someone?"
"No, it only works on snakes. If you encounter a powerful snake, it will only lead to death." Ye Haoxuan said with a slight smile.
"There must be something wrong with the village." Jiumei looked at the snakes twisted in the middle of the white powder. She said with some worry: "It seems that this plague is just the beginning. The weather here is so smooth.
It’s been a long time, so something is going to happen now.”
"Whenever there is silence, there must be movement. This is a rule that has not changed for thousands of years. Things in the village may still be troublesome." Ye Haoxuan looked at the twisted dead leaf snake on the ground and sighed involuntarily.
tone.
At this moment, a chill hit the depths of the bamboo forest, and then a vague shadow flashed in the bamboo forest and quickly disappeared.
"Who is it?" Ye Haoxuan shouted, stepped forward, and turned into an afterimage, quickly rushing towards the place where the shadow was. Almost instantly, he arrived at the place where the shadow just disappeared.
It's just that the bamboo leaves in this place were blown away by the wind, but the surroundings were quiet, with not a single person in sight.
Ye Haoxuan's perception extended in all directions, and the surrounding area was quiet, with no living creatures at all.
"How's it going? Is there anyone?" Jiumei ran over with Ye Haoxuan.
"No one is there." Ye Haoxuan looked around, "But I don't think it's too quiet here."
"There..." Jiumei suddenly pointed to a group of dense bamboos, and saw two people hanging on the bamboo. Judging from their clothes, they were a man and a woman.
Ye Haoxuan pointed with his right hand, and a burst of true energy swept across the bamboo. There were several rumbles, and the two people hanging on the bamboo fell to the ground.
The two men were dressed disheveled, obviously the same as Li Chunyu's two companions. Their faces also had passionate smiles on their faces, and they were not aware of the danger at all.
"He died not long ago, and his body temperature is still there." Ye Haoxuan stretched out his hand to explore the bodies of the two people. They should have been dead for less than half an hour.
"It's them..." Jiumei looked at the two corpses in surprise and was speechless for a moment.
"Is your village missing?" Ye Haoxuan glanced at Jiumei.
"Yes... the woman is a widow and the man is also a bachelor. His wife died a few years ago. They... how can they do such a thing?" Jiumei seemed to be unable to accept what was happening in front of her.
"Is it normal for single men and women to be together? Why can't they be together openly and openly? Why do they have to sneak around here?" Ye Haoxuan was very confused about the customs here. It seems that even for the Miao people, they can't be together unless their partner is dead.
The rules of marriage.
"We can't get married here." Jiumei shook her head with a complicated expression and said, "If you die, you are dead. You can't get married here. Otherwise, the mountain god will be angry."
"Your so-called mountain god has too much control." Ye Haoxuan said somewhat speechlessly: "I don't think there is anything wrong with single men and women being together."
He paused and then said: "Then do you think this is the mountain god's punishment for them?"
"Yes, absolutely yes, this is the mountain god's punishment for them. This kind of thing has happened too much recently. Before you came, a man and woman like them were dragged to be dipped in a pig cage." Jiumei
road.
"As for being so cruel?" Ye Haoxuan shook his head speechlessly.
"Because if they do this, the whole village will be affected." Jiumei said eagerly: "This is true, why don't you believe it? The plague in our village and their deaths have already shown something."
"They died of poison." Ye Haoxuan took out a silver needle and pricked them. The color of the silver needle slowly turned black. He stood up and raised the silver needle in his hand and said, "You know better than me.
The situation is that of poison."
"It's Gu..." Jiumei took the golden needle from Ye Haoxuan's hand. She said with some confusion: "Isn't it made by the mountain god?"
"Absolutely not." Ye Haoxuan said with certainty: "If there really is a mountain god, he will never go to all the trouble to poison your villagers, he will just let them die."
"Is it Grandma Xu? Impossible, it can't be her." Jiumei still didn't believe it.
"Take me to her place to have a look. No matter what, this matter must be clarified." Ye Haoxuan said: "Whether it is the plague or the poison, it needs to be found out, otherwise your village will never be destroyed."
There is no day of peace.”
"She doesn't see outsiders, especially you, who are not from our tribe, and she won't even see you." Jiumei shook her head.
"Forget it, I'm just passing by anyway. If the plague and the poison are not investigated clearly, the deaths will continue." Ye Haoxuan shook his head helplessly.
"This..." Jiumei hesitated. She lowered her head and thought for a long time, and then she made up her mind. She nodded and said, "I will call the clan leader first and deal with the matter of these two people."
The dinner party was almost over, and many people had gone back after getting drunk. The medical team, who had been left out for most of the night, had already gone to their accommodation to sleep. They were ignored this time when they came here, and I'm afraid they won't be beaten to death in the future.
You must have come to a place like this.
The village chief and a dozen villagers came over holding torches. When they saw the bodies of the two people, everyone fell silent.
"Patriarch, they have made the mountain god unhappy by doing this kind of thing." A villager reminded him as he saw that the patriarch's face was not very good-looking.
Because there are rules here in this small mountain village, those who have an affair like this will be soaked in the pig cage. If they don't die, it means that it is their fate. If they die, it means that the two of them have made the mountain god unhappy.
The rules of this village have existed for hundreds of years. During these hundreds of years, dozens of single men and women had private meetings and were imprisoned in pig cages.
None of these people could survive a stick of incense and make it ashore alive. In fact, some people knew that this was a bad habit. But because of the tradition in the village, most people chose to remain silent.
"Bury them." The patriarch waved his hand: "Bury them here."
"Chief, their bodies cannot be buried here. They died of the wrath of the mountain god." A villager said.
"Do you really believe that there are mountain gods in this world?" The patriarch suddenly turned around, with a trace of anger on his face: "Just like when this plague appeared, very early on, I asked to report to the government.
Let the government send people to rescue me, but who has supported me? You would rather believe that the Gu woman can use her witchcraft power to inspire the great witch, rather than believe in modern medical methods."
"If a doctor had come earlier, we wouldn't have so many people dying here. If you weren't so ignorant, your family wouldn't have suffered for so many days. What witch god, what mountain god? Bullshit."
The patriarch became more and more excited as he spoke: "If a man dies, his wife will be a bachelor for the rest of his life, and if a woman dies, her husband will die, she will be a widow for the rest of her life...whose rule is this?"
He pointed at the two people lying on the ground and shouted: "They can be together openly, but it is because of bad habits passed down for hundreds of years that they come out secretly..."
"Patriarch...it's wrong for them to do this. They can't get married after their spouse is dead." The villager who spoke had obviously been brainwashed by the village's traditions, and he said a little excitedly.
"Why can't we get married?" Ye Haoxuan took over his topic and said: "When did your customs come from? I walked around your village today, and I think your village used to be a
It’s quite a big village.”
"Yes, it is the largest village in the whole of western Hunan." The patriarch looked a little lonely.
"But now why are there not as many people in your village as there are in other villages? I looked at your houses and there are a lot of shabby ones. It must be that no one lives in them anymore. The population here is not prosperous. In the past
Hundreds of years, and it’s still decreasing.”
"Young people don't want to come back when they go out. Because they have adapted to modern life, there will be fewer and fewer people in your village." Ye Haoxuan said: "What is the reason? The reason is that you are feudal and autistic.
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"But this tradition..." someone argued.
"Does your tradition allow you to believe in other medicines besides Miao medicine?" Ye Haoxuan glanced at the villager...
"No...not allowed." The villagers stammered in reply: "We are sick here, so we can only ask the Gu Po to communicate with the witch god, or offer sacrifices to our great witch, make offerings to the mountain god, and ask him to protect us."