I looked at the sachet in my hand, feeling a little dazed.
Tian Sanjiu closed his eyes and asked, "Is this something? Who gave it to me?"
I remembered that day.
This sachet was sold to me and Dou Sprout by Master Hu, and he forcibly charged me fifty yuan. Dou Sprout threw it away because it got soaked when he first went into the water, but I have always kept this sachet with me.
I almost forgot about it.
I'm not sure if it's because of this.
When you bring the sachet closer, you can smell a light fragrance.
Tian Sanjiu went over and smelled the sachet a few times. He took a deep breath and said, "It's very comfortable. After smelling this fragrance, I feel a lot more relaxed."
"You haven't told me where this thing came from."
I hesitated for a moment and said that Mr. Hu had given it to me not long ago.
"Master Hu?"
Tian Sanjiu sat upright, frowned and said, "Is it the old man who lives alone in the hut in Guiziling?"
I said yes, you met me that night.
I don't know why, but after Tian Sanjiu smelled it a few times, the smell of the sachet became much weaker. He passed it to Master Ji and let Master Ji smell it a few times, and it basically lost its smell.
There were also seven or eight people who had problems. These people had vomited all night, almost vomiting out bile. They had no strength and their faces were sallow.
The sachet was almost smellless. Tian Sanjiu thought about it, frowned and said, "Although I don't know the principle, this thing is really useful. Now it's a critical moment and it's not convenient for me to leave. You go find the old man and ask for two."
This morning, I finally went to the ranger Lao Hu with full doubts.
Lao Hu was used to living alone and was still playing chess by himself in the house. He asked me what I wanted to see him for.
I didn't say it directly, but said: "It's nothing, Mr. Hu, you sold me two sachets for 50 yuan last time, do you remember?"
Lao Hu yawned and said: "What are you talking about? Last time I wanted to buy briquettes and I still had a hundred yuan short, so I got fifty yuan from you. What? You are here to get that back today.
Fifty dollars?”
"No, no, it's not."
I waved my hand, changed the topic, and suddenly asked him: "Hu Liqun, do you recognize him?"
"Hu Liqun?"
"Who is it? I don't know him." Mr. Hu said puzzledly.
The reason why I ask this is because it suddenly occurred to me that both of his surnames are Hu.
The old man stood up and said with a somewhat dissatisfied expression: "Are you okay? You're okay, I'm okay. I'm going out to town soon. If you want to refund the fifty yuan, just wait until I get my salary next month.
"
I immediately stood up and said, "Master Hu, you really misunderstood. I want to get a few of the same ones. Do you have any more here?"
He waved his hand and said, "No, those two were bought by the way when I was shopping for new year's goods in the county town during the Chinese New Year. They cost one yuan and a half each. They are no longer sold in the county town."
After saying that, he issued an eviction order and said that he would take the noon train to the town for business.
I locked the door and looked at Mr. Hu's back gradually walking away with his cloth bag in hand, I frowned and said nothing.
Because they didn't get the sachets, several people suffering from vomiting and diarrhea were sent to the county hospital for examination in the afternoon, and no one expected the examination results that came back.
Acute food poisoning.
There must be no problem with the cold vegetables and pork head meat, because everyone ate them, but only those who have seen the strange mole and smelled the stench have problems.
The only reasonable explanation is that the old Xiumei in the medicine box was responsible.
When I was at a loss, a strange phone call told me something very important.
"Hello, Mr. Xiang."
"Who are you?"
I took the phone and walked quickly to a deserted place.
The other party's voice was low and his age could not be discerned, so he said: "I am a secretary in Hunan. You don't need to ask me who I am, and I won't meet you."
"My godfather asked me to check some people and tell you that I'm busy with time. Next thing I said, you listen and try not to interrupt me."
The other party seemed to be reading information, and said in a cold voice: "Shehuo Wuchou was established in Yang County during the Guangxu period. The fourth generation leader was He Cai Lao. This person died of illness in September 1973. Now Wuchou's
The leader’s name is Self-Injury Snake. I can’t find an identity photo, but what I can confirm is that Self-Injury Snake is under 45 years old.”
"Lao Wu, female, is a dwarf. She is 38 years old. Information shows that this person has some hybrid geckos who can blow mouth arrows. The mouth arrows are coated with boiled gecko essence, which is poisonous."
I couldn't help but ask what a gecko is, and what is a gecko spirit? Are animals cultivated into spirits?
"I told you, don't interrupt me."
The other party's voice sounded a little dissatisfied, and he said: "The gecko is the gecko, and the gecko spirit is the spirit of the animal. Do you understand?"
I said I didn't understand yet.
He asked me, "You are a man, you have it too."
"ah?"
I said geckos also have that thing.
He said yes. When you open the gecko's belly, you can see a white egg-shaped object the size of millet. This is the gecko's high pill.
Collect them and boil them in water. The little slurry water that comes out is the gecko essence.
He went on to say: "In addition to guarding the palace, the other four people also raised things. The first generation of five ugly people did not refer to the ugly people at first, but the ugly things they domesticated."
"It took me a lot of effort to find out all this through my connections in the club. Young man, you owe me a huge favor."
I said that I knew that I, Xiang Yunfeng, would definitely visit me in the future and give me cigarettes and wine.
"Oh, the godfather is not lacking in those things. Let me tell you clearly, it was his little grandson who begged him every day that he asked me to help you."
Qianlonglong?
I didn't expect that it was the shit-exploding boy who helped me a lot. It was really not in vain to get him out of the latrine.
It is precisely because of this information that the mystery surrounding Wu Chou has become less mysterious.
The person on the other end of the phone continued: "My second brother is Hu Liqun. He has a devil monkey bred abroad. The devil monkey has been fed drugs since he was a child. If a person drinks monkey urine, he will be in a state of excitement within half an hour and his physical strength will also be reduced."
greatly increase."
"Lao Sanxi Nose, whose surname is Xu, is from Wuchang. He raises three-eyed toads. Three-eyed toads are surgical products. It is difficult to explain. I have an old photo here. I will send a multimedia message to your mobile phone number later.
, you’ll know what’s going on after you take a look.”
"The skin of the three-eyed toad is used by Tin Nose as an adhesive for human skin masks. This thing has side effects. Anyone who comes into direct contact with the skin will lose all their hair, including eyebrows. It will take at least half a year for it to grow back.
come out."
"Lao Si Yao Xiang, a Guangxi native, whose real name is Song Fang, and whose pseudonym is Song Xiumei, passed down from the first generation, they raise a hybrid star-nosed mole, and she will use the contents of the mole's stomach to prepare the medicine.
Soul potion and poisonous incense.”
"The last one is the leader of the Five Ugly Snakes who hurt himself. I can't tell you much about this person. I can only tell you that this person keeps a kind of snake called the blind snake. It looks ugly and its function is unknown.
"
"That's all. If you have anything else to ask, just say it. I still have three minutes."
I tried my best to write down these things, and when I heard this, I said: "Toad, snake, mole, monkey, gecko, the five ugly things are not about people being ugly, but these things are ugly?"
"Yes." The other party answered simply.
"What if I say, we have enmity with these people now, for example, kill one of them?"
"Which one is dead?" he asked.
I hesitated and said the second child, Dragon Monkey.
"Is the monkey dead?"
"No, the monkey ran away," I said, recalling what happened that night.
The other party said in a low voice: "It's useless if a person dies. Only when the monkey dies will one of the five ugly ones be lost. As long as the monkey is still there, a new dragon monkey will come out in a year or two."
"My time is up, young men. I wish you good luck."
"Wait, wait first."
"Can you tell me who you are?"
"Who am I...hehe."
"When you go to jail one day, maybe you can see me."
"At the meeting."
The other party hung up the phone, and when I called, it said the number was unavailable, and I quickly received a multimedia message.
An old black and white photo was sent in the MMS. It looked like it was on the operating table or in a laboratory, with several bottles and jars in the background.
In the black-and-white photo, there is a toad on the table. Its four legs were stretched straight by ropes, its back was bloody, and three pieces of its flesh were dug out.
I looked behind the toad and saw some yellow-brown powder sprinkled on the place where the flesh was dug out.