The winter solstice is the day of the year with the shortest day and the longest night. There is a folk saying: The winter solstice is as big as the year, and the world is reunited.
This is one of the most festive festivals of the year.
But for me, it is a sad day.
I was born on this day.
I also lost my mother on this day.
On this day, my mother, who was about to give birth, returned to Camellia Cave with difficulty.
Camellia Cave is a Miao village in western Hunan, about fifty miles away from the ancient city of Fenghuang.
Witchcraft is prevalent here, and mysterious poisons are also spread.
When my mother returned home, her face was pale and she was exhausted. She grabbed my grandmother's hand and said, "Mom, save my baby."
My grandmother was a barefoot doctor in Camellia Cave. Her famous name was Long Gaifeng. She was good at using Miao medicine. After staring at my mother for a while, she said with a trembling voice: "Gu fetus!"
The so-called voodoo fetus is a baby in the belly of a pregnant woman that is entangled by voodoo insects.
The baby will nourish the worms, and the soul will be eaten by the worms.
What a miserable death!
This is an extremely insidious method of inflicting poison, which kills two people and kills two people.
Hearing this, my mother's hand became even more powerful: "Mom! My cub cannot die. Otherwise, I will die with my eyes open! The evil spirit will fly straight into the sky! Maybe even I can't control it."
My grandmother sighed and said, "What a debt!"
My mother said again: "Mom, I will definitely not survive. If I die! Don't bury me!"
"Make me into a mummy! Make me into a wraith! Use my evil spirit to protect my cub! Suppress the poison in his body!"
Grandma's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth and agreed.
It soon became dark and the fetal movements began.
My grandma will prepare to deliver the baby immediately.
According to my grandmother, black blood flowed all over the floor.
The entire process of childbirth, a narrow escape from death, is extremely dangerous and long!
After I was born, lines of five different colors appeared on my abdomen: green, yellow, red, white and black.
These lines are still moving.
My grandma stared at it carefully for a while, but she didn't recognize what kind of bug it was.
However, the only thing that is certain is that there is not just one Gu worm in my body, but five.
Haunted by five poisons!
Grandma breathed rapidly and shouted: "Who is it! Who is it! So vicious!"
I didn't cry for a long time.
Soon, my grandmother lit a stick of incense, sprinkled a handful of white glutinous rice on the black blood, and recited devoutly: "Bless the Gu God! Bless the Golden Silkworm!"
Immediately, there seemed to be slight footsteps.
Then, a ball of golden light fell on my Tianling Cap.
"Wow! Wow!"
I burst into tears immediately.
After hearing my cry, my mother finally put her mind to rest, let out a cry and closed her eyes.
Afterwards, my grandma asked a craftsman to build a square sarcophagus. She also found unique pigments, used local Miao wood nails and Chenzhou talismans to make my mother's mummy.
The corpse was placed in the hut behind the bamboo house.
From then on, my mother slept in the hut, and the door was firmly locked with a copper lock.
However, my grandma never let me get close to the small house in the bamboo house.
Although my mother died, she stayed by my side in another way.
The five poisonous poisons in my body have never occurred.
My grandmother told me that my mother turned into a corpse after her death, and her whole body was extremely full of evil spirits.
With the presence of this strong evil spirit, the five gu in my body will not attack for the time being.
In addition, my grandmother asked the Golden Silkworm to protect her.
Therefore, I was supposed to die on the night of the winter solstice on the day I was born, but I survived.
However, for Camellia Cave, I am an unlucky person.
In addition to the surname Long, Camellia Cave also has another branch with the surname Ma.
There are some old people in Ma's family who keep voodoos, and they noticed something was wrong with me.
Soon, the terms "gu fetus" and "wild species" spread like crazy like weeds.
If it weren't for my grandmother's reputation for rescuing people, I would have been kicked out long ago.
When I was very young, I couldn't understand these curse words.
Gradually, when I got older, I gradually understood the meaning of these two words.
Especially the "bastard" was not only scolding me, but also slandering my mother.
He scolded her for being unruly, getting pregnant before she was married, no one wanted her, and coming back in despair with a bastard.
These words are like needles pricking my heart.
For this reason, I often fight with people.
When I got home, my grandma told me: "Dongsheng, it's okay. It will be fine when you grow up."
So, from that time on, I wanted to grow up quickly.
Grandma warned the people in the village that if anyone said harsh or vicious words, she would not save anyone in the future. She would not care who died or was bitten by the poison.
When I was six years old.
One day, grandma went to another village to treat people.
I sat at home waiting for her and fell asleep without knowing it.
Suddenly, I felt a very rough hand touching my forehead.
When I opened my eyes, the sun had set.
I suddenly realized that there was a strange man standing in front of me. His whole body was covered with snake and scorpion scales, his eyes were red, and his entire face was covered with pits and spider hairs. He was not human at all.
"Who are you?" I exclaimed.
When the scaly monster saw me waking up, it grinned and made a strange noise, then retreated calmly.
Black footprints were left on the ground.
At this time, I heard someone shouting outside the house: "Dongsheng, something happened to your grandma."
I went out and saw that it was Makiko calling me.
He continued: "I just saw that your grandmother was carried back!"
I ran quickly.
I saw my grandmother sitting on a stretcher, her clothes were stained red with blood, especially her right leg, with the bones exposed, and she looked very scary.
The wound on the right leg didn't look like a bite from a wild animal, but rather like a bite from some tiny insect.
I was so anxious that tears welled up all of a sudden.
Grandma smiled and said: "It's okay! It was just bitten by some small things! After bandaging, it will be fine. It won't die."
At this time, she looked at my forehead, was suddenly startled, and asked quickly: "Dongsheng, has anyone been here today?"
I hurriedly said: "There is a monster with black scales! He touched my forehead. After I woke up, I glared at him! He grinned at me, not knowing whether he was laughing or crying, and turned around and left. How strange
dream!"
Grandma looked shocked, thought for a long time, and finally made a decision.
"Dongsheng, starting from today, you will study medicine with me! My medical skills are different from those of doctors in the world. You must be prepared."
I was still very young at that time and didn't understand the meaning of my grandmother's words at all.
It wasn't until later that I gradually understood.
Among grandma's medical skills, one is very dangerous, which is to use poison to save people.
Gu can kill people! It can also save people.
However, using poison to save people is even more difficult!
To learn to use voodoo to save people, you must first understand the voodoo's habits, control its characteristics, and also learn to raise and control the voodoo.
I had seen my grandmother’s skills, so I nodded excitedly and said innocently: “When I learn your medical skills, I will rescue my mother from the lonely wooden house! Come and have dinner with us!”
I started studying medicine with my grandmother when I was six years old.
In the first year, I mainly learned to recognize and identify poisonous insects and weeds in the mountains.
It's just that my grandma hasn't taught me how to recognize and use voodoo for a long time.
I even suspected for a time that there was no such thing as Gu in the world.
The rumors about "gu" circulating in the village are just to scare children.
By the time I was seven years old.
My grandma asked me to go to school during the day so that I could study clearly and not be blind. At night, I would come back and study medicine with her.
Miao medicine also has a heritage, and my grandmother’s cases over the years have also been documented!
Therefore, reading and literacy is very necessary.
After I finished junior high school, my grandmother asked me to return to Camellia Cave.
In the words of my grandmother: Dongsheng, your life will be very dangerous. Learn some life-saving skills from me as soon as possible.
On my sixteenth birthday, this day is also the anniversary of my mother’s death.
The weather is very cold.
Grandma said to me very seriously: "When you can suppress the five gu in your body, your mother can be buried and buried in peace! Are you ready?"