Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Seeing that the old lady lying on the bed was scared, Xiaomi immediately hid behind me.

If Xie Qirong hadn't pulled me away with a cart, I would have already arrived.

After all, it was one step too late.

"My condolences to Master Wu," I said.

"I'm not sad," Master Wu said calmly, "Alan won't have to suffer anymore. She has no friends but me, and I only have her. We have agreed a long time ago, not to be sad, not afraid, not to cry, but before and after Just feet."

He looked at me and said: "The last time you came, she saw that you had a problem. After you left, Alan said that next spring, there is a 50% probability that you will have an accident, and a 50% probability that you will be fine. She told you to be careful of the bugs around you."

While talking, Master Wu didn't know whether it was intentional or not, he took a look at Xiaomi.

Xiaomi hid behind me, perhaps because she was afraid of Granny Alan who had passed away on the bed, so she didn't dare to show her face.

Thinking of the big dumplings, I said: "Xiaomi, you go outside and wait for me first, and I will talk to Master Wu alone."

After Xiaomi went out, he closed the door. Master Wu took out a bottle of white wine and two small cups, and said let's have a drink, and wanted to chat with you.

The old lady Alan on the bed had passed away, so Master Wu and I sat on the ground next to the bed.

The wine was a very common low-quality loose wine, very spicy. Master Wu poured two glasses and drank it all by himself first.

He told me a story like an elder, and said to me: "Young man, when I was young, I was just like you. I was bold and greedy for money. I went down to the imperial tombs in Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi. At that time, I couldn't get enough to eat. Let's dig them out. The bronze tripod and the bronze wares are only exchanged for two or three yuan to buy a bag of rice."

"When I was 30 years old, I lost my hand once. I was notified and arrested by the whole province. I couldn't get along, so I went to Guangxi with someone on the train." Speaking of this, Master Wu glanced at the grandma on the bed, and said with a smile: "Also That's where I met Alan."

"Come on, young man, touch one."

I raised my small wine glass and bumped into Master Wu.

Poor quality wine was poured into the throat, without fragrance, only feeling like it was burning.

Master Wu continued: "What about Alan, she couldn't even speak Mandarin at that time, and she was selling cloth shoes with an old Miao girl. At that time, she was wearing big earrings, she was very beautiful..."

I heard a lot, and at the same time, I also learned from Master Wu what Gu is, what Gu Po is, and what paper Po is.

At that time, I was young, and my peers were still in school, but Master Wu's words subverted my cognition.

The word "Gu" has worms on the top and dish on the bottom. The dish refers to the container. The separation of this word means "the worm is in the container." .

This kind of thing really exists. I still believe in this until now. Many people will dismiss it and scoff at it. I can’t say anything about it. You don’t need to believe it.

The scourge of witchcraft has existed since ancient times. It began to take shape in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and reached its peak in the Western Han Dynasty. Later, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, all dynasties, there are many records, and they are all written in the law.

"Laws of Han Dynasty", "Laws of Tang Dynasty", "Laws of Great Ming Dynasty" and "Laws of Great Qing Dynasty" clearly stated that once those who make Gu and raise Gu are found, they will be sentenced as murder, and those who do not report the knowledge will be exiled together.Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor in the Yuan Dynasty, said in his book: "Gu people, who change the spirit of confusion, take more insects and snakes, store them in containers, eat and eat each other for a hundred days, and get one thing. The so-called Gu, follow the soup and wine. Take it, the disaster will be endless.”

Chao Yuanfang said, "Hide it with a container". Master Wu told me that this container is a kind of container specially referred to by the Miao nationality.

If the jar is filled with water and turned 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 Hunan, Guangxi have received it. They call this kind of jar, "Drip can, bug can."

This kind of pot is the same as the golden pot for the second burial of bones, and only a small part exists in a certain area. It is so rare that people in the city have never seen it.

Mr. Wu said that there are two types of Miao people and Miao villages. One is Miao and Han people who live together. This kind of village has radios, sewing machines, and even rice cookers for cooking. This kind of village does not have the rules of Miao people. It is just an ordinary village. .

There is also a kind of Miao village hidden in the mountains, very isolated from the world, and you can’t find it if you get lost. The villagers have their own clothes, their own language, are very poor, and have no electricity.The Miao girls here wear big earrings, and the pierced ears are very large, which have been enlarged over the years.

Miao girls sing folk songs and are hospitable, that is the first type of village.

The second type is not like this. They are xenophobic and have never been out of the mountains in their entire lives. In this kind of village, there are Gu women who can lay Gu, also called grass ghosts.

In the northwestern part of Hunan and the deep south of Guangxi, if anyone is unlucky in the mountains and enters this kind of village, he will be unlucky. Even if he can escape and return to the city, he will not survive a year.

Because he may have eaten something, he died a year later with ascites and hepatic fluid, and died with a big belly. After his death, he was dissected and found that the intestines and feces were full of worms.

Granny Alan was from there back then, and her mother was a Gu Po from Lao Miao Village.

Later, Alan eloped away from Miao Village with his private life as Master Wu, a tomb robber.

There are three types of Gu Po, female Gu Po accounts for 90% of the total, the female Gu Po is called Ghost Grass Po, the one who unleashes Gu Po is called Zhi Po Po, and the male Gu Po is called Chicken Po, why is male Gu Po called Chicken Po? , There is a saying that he is good at submitting Gu worms from chicken manure, and there is another saying that it is a joke, saying that because he is a man, he has something growing on his body, so he is a chicken woman.

If you want to unravel the Gu, you must first know what Gu has been placed.

To distinguish Gu medicine, it is to look at the feces of Gu people.

Shit, you can't pull it on the ground and grab it with your hands, it's too disgusting, so you have to put a piece of paper on it.

Cover it with paper, and you can recognize any Gu if you look carefully, so it sounds better to call it "Watching Paper Po", or else, is it called "Watch Shi Po"?

Modern ascariasis, schistosomiasis, ashworm disease, etc. were considered to be Gu in ancient times, and many of them had to be tested for feces when they went to the hospital for treatment.

Granny Liu Lan said that there may be worms in my body, and symptoms will appear next spring. She said that if I have a bad cold in spring, I will go to see a Miao doctor.

I was really scared at the time. Who wouldn't be scared when they heard that there were bugs in their body? (Except for Xie Qirong?)

Now that Liu Lan has passed away, what should I do? Even if I go to the toilet with the paper, she can't look at the paper when I get out. She can't see how the paper can save me.

On top of the fake wine, Mrs. Wu was a little drunk, she blushed and said: "Nian...young people, don't panic, if you are really poisoned and there will be worms in your body, you will be fine in a short time, because worms also need time Grow, give it time."

I said Master Wu, please stop talking, you are trying to scare me to death.

Master Wu shook his head, got up and walked to the side of his deceased wife.

"Alan knows that there is no way to help you. If you want to make sure you are okay now, she told me a way before she left, with a 30% success rate."

I immediately sat up and asked, "What way?"

"Eat the egg yolk." Master Wu said.

"Eat egg yolk? Is it that simple?"

"Simple?"

Master Wu shook his head and said it was not easy. Alan said that you have to eat at least three catties of dry egg yolks at a time, and you can't chew them, you have to swallow them whole through your throat.

I said that’s not okay. When I was a child, I would vomit when I took medicine, and I had to dip my mouth with sugar, and the egg yolk was so big and soft, it broke when I put it in my mouth. How could I swallow it whole?

"It's not for you to swallow it directly," Master Wu waved his hand and said, "You have to swallow it with something in your pocket, so it won't break."

"Bringing things around? What do you use? Plastic bags?"

At this time, Master Wu hesitated and whispered:

"There's something good to use."