Mantra

Chapter 194 The Mystery in the Book
The diary left to me by my master Zhao Haipeng wrote many unbelievable things.

As if with a premonition, he explained in detail behind many events and legends.

Among them, there is the content of Gu.

Thanks to the squad leader's diary, I immediately saw the tricks in the porridge, and I also knew that Sailiu Po ​​must have "voodoo" in the porridge for us.

No wonder she rushed to cook for us.

But although I have seen through everything, I don't want to point out anything in person, and my old squad leader also wrote in his diary that when encountering such a situation, it is better not to point it out.

Don't make it clear, so that both parties have some leeway, and there are deeper reasons...

Therefore, after I overturned the porridge bowl in Xian Hongye's hand, I quickly restrained my demeanor, tried to pretend to be calm, and said to Sailiu Po: "There are dirty things in the porridge bowl, my friend has a bad stomach, so I can't eat it. Yes, I will pay you back."

My words and actions have already attracted everyone's attention, and it's no different from making it clear.

Therefore, except for Agou and Amao brothers who are not very good at Chinese, everyone looked at Sailiupo with serious expressions, and looked at the fat boy beside her who was almost crying.

At this time, the mother-in-law left and returned, she raised her head, and there was a bit of murderous look in her expression.

Under the lonely night, the old lady's aura suddenly changed, which made all of us nervous to the extreme.

Sailiupo squinted her eyes, looked at me for a while, and then suddenly said, "Aren't you afraid of a rotten tongue when you talk nonsense?"

I saw no regrets in Sailiupo's words, so I knew I was being cruel!
Immediately, I took out the bowl and chopsticks he gave me, and poked the chopsticks hard on the table!
The action of me poking the chopsticks surprised Xian Hongye and Lin Shaosong, but made Sailiupo look terrified.

She looked at the chopsticks in my hand, gasped as if she saw a knife, and took a step back with her grandson.

I carefully observed her expression, and suddenly realized that my judgment and "threat" were correct.

Taking advantage of the momentum, I immediately questioned Sailiu Po: "You don't care, isn't your child afraid of me speaking out?"

My last sentence finally made Sailiupo give in.

Indifferently, Sailiupo stopped talking to me, and she also lost the murderous aura she had before.

Afterwards, the old lady put away the bowls and chopsticks and white porridge.Saying "It's a pity" in his mouth, he wanted to leave.

I can't let her leave so easily.

Nervously, I yelled to stop, then pointed to the two brothers A Gou and Mao who were the first to drink the porridge, and said to Sailiu Po: "My two brothers...are sick, don't you care?"

Sailiupo glanced at me, then turned around and said, "Leave here before the sun goes down tomorrow, and I'll be fine."

After I heard the words, a stone in my heart fell to the ground with a bang, and then I politely said "Excuse me", and I didn't say anything.

The air sparring between me and Sailiupo ended with my victory and her compromise.

After Sailiu Po ​​left, Hong Ye, who had guessed six or seven points, immediately asked me, "Did she put medicine in this porridge?"

I wiped off my sweat, nodded and said, "It's Gu! This old lady is a very powerful Gu woman!"

While talking, the expressions of the brothers Ah Mao and Ah Gou who had already drank the porridge changed.It seemed that they knew the power of the Gu, so they retched a few times immediately, and at the same time held the amulet in their palms and kept praying.

Seeing their nervousness, I immediately reassured them that their lives were not in danger, and the old lady also said just now that as long as we leave before sunset tomorrow, there must be no problem.

While talking, Lin Shaosong asked me: "How do you know that this old lady is a Gu Po? Since she is a Gu Po...why don't you tell her face to face? You still hesitate, give him face?"

I waved my hand, and in the back of my fear, I first told everyone what Gu is.

My old squad leader wrote in his diary after he became a soldier that in Yunnan, Guizhou and western Hunan, there are three "professions" that are the most mysterious, and ordinary people will never get involved if they have nothing to do.

And these three "professions" are inextricably linked historically with Gu and the Temple of the Five Viscera.

Gu, which often appears in novels and TV, is said to be miraculous, but in fact, its true appearance is a kind of primitive "biological poison", which is the same as people eating moldy or parasitic things. .

According to the account of my old squad leader, this kind of thing was actually invented by the Han people, but it was eventually abandoned by the Han people and spread to Yunnan, Guizhou, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar in remote areas.

Speaking of the reason why Gu disappeared in the Han area, it is actually quite ironic. Even though there is a lot of poisonous poison among people, and the reason why various dynasties severely crack down on it is in it, but the real reason is not this.

"What is that?" Hongye asked.

I smiled helplessly, and told her instead: "Because things like Gu...the power is too small."

"What?!~" My answer stunned everyone.

Known for being ruthless, perverted and weird, the reason for Gu's disappearance in Han is "too little power". I'm afraid no one can accept this explanation.

But the actual situation... that's it.

The main reason why Gu disappeared in Han is that it is difficult to maintain and easy to break. It takes two or three days to kill a person at the fastest, which is too inefficient compared to the poison that kills after eating.

And Gu is the same as raising little ghosts in Thailand, there are quite risks. If you meet an expert who can dispel Gu, or if the Gu raiser raises it wrongly, then it is possible that the Gu poison will backfire on you, and you will be raised by yourself instead. Gu kills.

While speaking, I recalled the process of "fighting against each other" with the old lady just now, and then said: "The reason why the old lady dare not continue to release Gu poison is because I took advantage of these shortcomings of Gu poison, and... From the time I came to this Yaowang Temple, I felt something was wrong."

Because this temple is too clean.

In our hometown in Hebei, there is a saying in ancient times, which is called "people live in the house, and no one in the house collects dust." It means that if there are people living in the house, dirt will be generated, and if there is no one in the house, dust will accumulate.This is a physical characteristic, and one of the experiences in judging whether a house is unoccupied or not.

Of course, experience is experience, and there are always exceptions to everything. For example, if the owner of a house raises Gu, there will be neither dirt nor dust.

This point is very clear in the diary of my old squad leader.

The squad leader wrote after the white-eating Gu in Batulu: "...Since ancient times, the house where the Gu was raised must be bright and clean. Even if the house is overgrown with weeds, the house must be spotless. Dust. And this is also the first point to judge a Gu breeder."

Therefore, when Sailiu Po ​​showed me the kitchen, toilet and stove just now, I already found that her house was unusually clean, and even the ash from the bottom of the pot could not be seen on the stove, which really resembled the overgrown weeds on the roof In stark contrast.

Of course, even so, I can't say that she is a Gu Po, and I can't say anything just because her house is clean.

It wasn't until I saw what was in her porridge bowl that my mind was strengthened.

(End of this chapter)