When she heard that she had actually been poisoned, Mrs. Lin felt as if she was dead. She grabbed Shi Luo hard but could not say a word. The pleading in her eyes made anyone feel unbearable.
Mrs. Lin's husband also looked at Shi Luo, hoping that Shi Luo would tell him that what Su Fei said was not true before, but Shi Luo sighed and nodded: "Actually, I discovered it a long time ago. You are indeed bewitched.
"
Mrs. Lin was drained of all her strength in an instant, and she lay on the bed as if dead. Her heart was filled with despair, and even the pain that had been suppressed immediately showed signs of recurrence, and the cold sweat began to flow down again.
"Let me die." Sister-in-law Lin cried anxiously, but as soon as she finished speaking, she immediately shook her head: "No, I can't die! What will happen to my daughter if I die?"
According to ancient legend, once a voodoo is planted, it is difficult to leave. If the voodoo witch who planted the voodoo does not take it back in time after the death of the host, the voodoo will find a younger generation who is related to the original host and pass it on.
If Mrs. Lin dies, the poisonous insect will most likely be passed on to her daughter.
Mrs. Lin's husband was also anxious. He knelt down on the ground with a bang and kowtowed to Shi Luo: "Village chief, please save her, please!"
"Get up first and then talk."
Shi Luo spoke, and Xie Yufei and Hu Mang hurriedly stepped forward to help Mrs. Lin's husband up. Shi Luo murmured: "After I found out, I also searched through the medical skills left by my ancestors, but unfortunately I couldn't find a way to get rid of this kind of poison.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been dragging it out like this.”
A sense of death instantly filled the room, and even the village chief, who had always been highly respected, couldn't do anything about it. Then wouldn't this family be hopeless?
"Otherwise..." Mrs. Lin seemed to be hesitant to speak: "Otherwise, let's go find the Jiang family behind the mountain bridge. They might..."
Lin's husband immediately refuted: "No, you don't know what kind of people they are! Don't forget what happened in the village two years ago, otherwise they wouldn't be driven to the mountain bridge!"
Su Fei raised his eyebrows inadvertently, so the people who came to the other side of the mountain bridge were called the Jiang family? And they themselves were probably inherited Gu witches? Otherwise, why would the people in the village reject and fear them so much?
Su Fei winked at Xie Yufei and Hu Mang and told them not to talk.
Shi Luo was also thinking hard, and finally said: "I will go to Lao Jiang in person now and ask him to treat Mrs. Lin. They should not take action against me."
"Village Chief!" Hope rekindled in the eyes of Mrs. Lin and her husband, but her husband hesitated to speak and seemed a little worried about Shi Luo's comfort.
Shi Luo immediately packed up his things and prepared to go up the mountain overnight. Before he could walk up the mountain path, Su Fei suddenly ran quickly from behind: "Old man, let me go with you."
Shi Luo shook his head and refused sternly: "Su Fei, please don't go. They won't do anything to me, but they won't do anything to you. The Jiang family is very conservative and unanimously believe that the changes in the swamp are caused by the arrival of you outsiders, so
Very hostile to outsiders.”
"It's okay, I'm not afraid." Su Fei patted his chest and said with a smile: "I just want to experience it, and I know that poisonous insects usually live in women's bodies. I am a man and I have no children, so I don't have that worry."
"But……"
"Don't worry, I have my own precautions. I saw these things last time."
Su Fei refused to leave no matter what, Shi Luo had no choice but to give Su Fei some precautions. Su Fei asked Xie Yufei and Hu Mang to stay at the foot of the mountain without any worries, and then followed Shi Luo up the mountain.
The mountain village was not big to begin with, and the news about Mrs. Lin spread quickly. Shi Luo and Su Fei were walking to the top of the mountain. The Dong and Shui people living here on the mountain roads along the way couldn't help but walk out of their respective stilt houses.
Li stuck his head out and looked here, and occasionally brave men walked to the roadside to talk to each other.
But no matter what, no one came forward to talk to Shi Luo and Su Fei. It seemed that there was something about them that they could not avoid.
Su Fei looked around at the villagers. Everyone would turn away their eyes before Su Fei looked at him, as if they would be infected by looking at him. Su Fei lowered his voice and asked Shi Luo: "As for the poison,
Have the villagers always been this scared?"
"It wasn't like this in the past. Well, actually this was all a misunderstanding in the past."
"Can you tell me something?"
When Shi Luo saw Su Fei asking, thinking that Su Fei was going to cross the mountain bridge, he nodded: "It's okay to tell you. In fact, our Miao people and the Jiang family are also Miao people, but we belong to the Bai ethnic group."
The Miao ethnic group, the Jiang family belongs to the Jiugu Miao ethnic group, which is what you commonly call the "Black Miao"."
"In the past, the ancestors of our four ethnic groups did not actually live here, but on the edge of the swamp. Although everyone knows that the Jiang family is a family that inherits voodoo witchcraft, they have lived with us for generations, and most of the voodoo they raised were used to repel insects.
Dispelling the miasma is beneficial to the whole village, so everyone is harmonious with each other."
"But after outsiders began to enter the swamp to explore, the swamp became dangerous and strange things happened frequently. We had to move away from the ancestral land. This made the Jiang family more and more dissatisfied with outsiders. They also began to show their dissatisfaction with outsiders.
hostility."
"One time, several young people from outside came here to play. After a trip, they found that their bodies were parasitized by wild poisonous insects. We asked the Jiang family to help detoxify them, but the Jiang family did not want to take action. The young man's companions
In anger, he said that the poison was caused by the Jiang family and forced the Jiang family to remove the poison for them."
"In the end, the Jiang family did not take action, and the two parties broke up. But the rumor gradually spread in the village, and many people began to believe what those young people said, and their views on the Jiang family began to change."
"Then the Jiang family found that the village could no longer accommodate them, so they voluntarily moved to the mountain bridge. They would only come down to meet other people during festivals or when they went shopping. The rest of the time they would live on their own on the top of the mountain."
Su Fei pondered for a moment: "Then... was the last poison poisoned by the Jiang family?"
"No, I can guarantee this. Lao Jiang's family is not like that. Although they hate outsiders, they don't bother to do such harmful things." Shi Luo sighed: "But now the villagers think so.
Even as the village chief, I can't persuade everyone to change their impression of the Jiang family."
Su Fei suddenly thought of something and took out the bottle of powder that Shi Luo mixed with Suas as the main ingredient: "Let me guess, so everyone in the village sprinkles this powder on the windowsills and door cracks at night. In fact,
Isn’t it just repelling mosquitoes and venomous snakes, is it also preventing poisonous insects?”
Shi Luo hummed, his expression solemn.
For a village chief, nothing worries him more than the direct estrangement between villagers.
Su Fei also asked some other questions along the way. It turned out that Shi Luo's ancestor was actually a well-known local Miao doctor. Unfortunately, Shi Luo's father did not inherit the skills of his ancestors in his generation, and now there is only one left.
Heaping up medical books and not being able to inherit his ancestral business was also a big regret in Shi Luo's heart.
Turning right from the mountain road ahead, Su Fei finally saw what the villagers called this mountain bridge after pushing aside the dense weeds.
The entire mountain bridge is only less than fifty meters long. It spans between mountain streams and is worthy of the name of mountain crossing. There is bottomless darkness below, but the sound of flowing water can be heard.
The bridge body is all made of classic mortise and tenon structure, and the wood used is mostly pine from the mountains, with occasional cypress wood mixed in. Although it is old, its strength is no less than that of modern bridges. And every design
All highlight the folk customs of this generation of Miao Jiang, which is indeed unique from this perspective alone.
There are red ropes hanging on the railings on both sides of the bridge, and there are hundreds of red sachets strung on each red rope. Most of the sachets have faded, but some are still brand new.
"This mountain bridge is also the marriage bridge in our village. On the wedding day, men and women will come here to show their names on silk and stuff them into sachets, and tie the sachets to a red rope to pray for peace.
Harmony and beauty last forever. Of course, there are also people in our village who are divorced or married outside. In this case, you cannot leave a sachet on the mountain bridge, and you must take it off if you have one."
"Actually, I'm quite envious of you. In our city, when you get married now, you don't even talk about the dowry first, and the betrothal gift is hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Add in a house and a car, which basically adds up to several million.
It doesn’t look like getting married at all, but more like trying to sell your own daughter for a good price. How can ordinary people afford it?”
Su Fei walked slowly across the bridge, with faded sachets at her feet, seemingly feeling emotional.
When they reached the end of the mountain bridge, Shi Luo stopped and personally sprinkled Su Fei with medicinal powder up and down. Su Fei knew that this was Shi Luo's kindness and did not stop him. Anyway, this thing is extremely toxic when applied to the skin.
It's limited, but the tingling feeling is really uncomfortable.
Different from the mountainside and the foot of the mountain, the top of the mountain where Jiang's family is located is sparsely populated. There are only about a dozen stilted buildings at a glance. The total number of men, women and children probably only accounts for forty or fifty people.
The indifferent Lai Yezi whom Su Fei saw back then was standing at the entrance of the residential area. Behind him were six or seven young strong men with the same indifferent expressions. There was no hint of hostility in Su Fei's eyes.
"Shi Luo, I didn't expect you to really come to me." Jiang Chao had a gray beard hanging straight down his chest, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and on him, Su Fei felt an obscure and cold aura.
, after careful examination, Su Fei found that it was not him who was cold, but something about him.
"It's probably a Gu insect?" Su Fei whispered to himself.
Shi Luo stepped forward and saluted with a unique Miao gesture: "Old Jiang, I have no choice but to ask you to come down the mountain this time."
Jiang Chao did not answer directly, but glanced at Su Fei with a scrutinizing gaze: "You should know that our Jiang family doesn't like outsiders. Aren't you afraid that the same thing will happen when you bring him up?"
then?
Su Fei had something in mind. It seemed that what happened that year had made the Jiang family extremely disappointed with the entire village. Otherwise, he would not have moved his family to live here at Guoshanqiao and stopped interacting with other people.
.
"Jiang Chao, I know you are not someone who messes around. I also know what happened back then." Shi Luoyou took a step forward and looked at Jiang Chao sincerely: "I really have no choice this time.
Lin Zi's poison is acting up tonight, faster and more violently than in the past, I'm afraid she won't be able to resist it next time."
Jiang Chao sneered: "So what? Life, old age, sickness and death are natural. When you let those outsiders enter the village, you should have known that there would be such consequences!"
"The old woman next to that young man is very powerful. She was the one who cast the poison on Aunt Lin. But you don't have to worry, the poison is not fatal. The woman is just using Lin Zi's blood to ripen her poison.
."
"Linzi was born in a Yin year, a Yin month, a Yin day. Although she has given birth to a child, there is still a trace of Yin Yuan left in her body. The Gu worms released by that woman want to eat up that Yin Yuan. When the Yin Yuan is eaten up, the Gu worms
It will leave on its own, but it will only make Lin Zi seriously ill. The reaction was so violent today, I guess that Gu insect is going to leave soon."
To be continued...