Ancient Sword II: The Tracking of the Fierce Mountain

Chapter 38: Messages

The behavior of the old woman chopping the cutting board in the middle of the road did not attract any attention from passers-by, as if it should be so, as it should be, no one stopped to take a look, but just passed by without seeing anything, so they stopped Le Wuyi and Xia Yi, who stepped down and were a little surprised, were different.The two looked at each other. Is such a strange behavior a custom?

"Dingling——" a crisp silver bell sounded behind them, and the two turned their heads, but there was a girl wearing a silver bracelet, a silver collar, and several silver bells on her feet standing behind her with a blushing face and said: "Two Brother, are you a stranger?"

That look of wanting to talk but still shy obviously meant to strike up a conversation, Xia Yi smiled and nodded, looking along the road, you can also see the two people who are hiding in the corner of the wall and pushing each other not far away The three Tujia girls looked like they were blushing and afraid to go forward.

The Le Wuyi in front of me is the same as Xia Yize, one is bright and enthusiastic, the other is calm and handsome, and they are all of high quality, so it is normal for these girls to be excited.

"This girl..." Considering the difference in language habits, Xia Yi did not use "Miss" as a title, "Can you tell us what that old man is doing?" The direction of the finger is naturally the old woman people.

With such a gentle voice, the girl's face turned even redder when she heard the words, but she is a very enthusiastic minority girl, and her cowardice is only for a moment: "The two brothers are indeed foreigners, you must think she is very strange, right?" She came here because of Xia Yize's doubts that were no different from Le's. In order to make a good impression, she knew everything without saying anything.

Nodding his head to admit that it was naturally impossible, Xia Yi said euphemistically, "I'm just curious, we don't have such a custom over there."

The girl nodded knowingly: "That's for sure, I haven't heard of Han people having the habit of raising hags."

"Grass witch?" Le Wuyi was a little curious when he heard the words, "What is that?"

The girl smiled brightly: "There are definitely no curses on your side." When she saw Xia Yize, the two were still very puzzled, and then thought of another more appropriate and easy-to-understand word, "Well... it's you Han people often say - Gu worms."

As soon as the word "Gu worm" came out, Xia Yi, like Le Wuyi, suddenly realized that they were familiar with the Gu worms that are specially used to curse people, so they naturally knew: "It turned out to be Gu worms, but..." Looking at the hand The old woman holding a kitchen knife, "What does this have to do with Gu worms?"

The girl was very enthusiastic: "That's driving away the grass hag, what the grass hag fears most is the sound of an empty chopping board," she pointed to the very serious old woman, "as long as you hear an old lady cutting a chopping board, , they won’t come over to harm people.”

But it turned out that the reason why the grass ghost woman took the word "po" was because according to historical rumors, most of the people who domesticated Gu insects were old women, also known as "gu women", so they wanted to expel grass ghosts. Hags should be handled by old women who are similar in age to their masters and old enough to tame them.Seeing the old lady chopping chopping boards there, the Gu worms would think that their master wanted to chop them up, and would flee quickly to save their lives, and would never come back again.

"Harmful? So..." Did something happen here?Xia Yi was thoughtful, since he acted like this in public, it must have been an accident, but facing the local girl, he didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Well," the girl nodded, but relieved Xia Yize's concerns and said proactively, "You don't know, someone died in the town recently, and I heard it was caused by the grass ghost."

"Dead?" Xia Yi and Le Wuyi looked at each other, "Is it caused by Gu?"

The girl looked affirmative, and she wrote while she was talking: "That's what everyone said, the ears, nose, and mouth are covered with blood, and it was done by a grass hag who specializes in eating brains."

The girl told the whole story over there, but it turned out that it was a family named Yao in the town. After being retaliated, someone specially raised the grass hag to take revenge.

In order to prevent their family members from being implicated, these days, elderly women can be seen chopping chopping boards in the middle of the road every day. This is to expel Gu worms to protect their family members.Such behavior coupled with the recent rumors, everyone has long been familiar with it.

And the fact is true, the old man in the middle of the road finally stopped, and the moment she got up, the door of a house facing the street opened from the inside, and a middle-aged man came out with a happy face, Saying "Grandma has worked hard", he welcomed the old man into the house.

Xia Yi, on the other hand, thanked the enthusiastic Tujia girl like Le Wuyi, and walked for a while after the other party turned her head back and forth. After that, many inquiries were nothing more than the death of the Yao family. Without any valid information, the two set off for the temporarily borrowed stilted building.

When I returned to the temporary residence, I saw Xie Yi sitting at the door of the bamboo house, with a warm and peaceful face, talking to the people around me, and the very familiar sound of "duk tuk tuk" came , You don't need to guess to know that it is another old man who drives away Gu worms.

It seems that there is a lot of turmoil in this town recently, and the situation is not optimistic. This is the idea that Xia Yi and Le Wuyi came up at the same time.

While chatting and laughing, Xie Yi saw Le Wuyi and Xia Yize returning, and immediately said: "Wuyi, Yize, you are back."

"Master..." Seeing the smiling Xie Yi, Le Wuyi could be said to have rushed away following the call, like a young bird that has finally returned to its nest after being away from home for a long time, "We are back!"

I don't want to rush to Xie Yi, but suddenly stretch out a hand, barely stopping Le Wuyi.Le Wuyi stopped, and when he looked up, he saw Shen Ye holding a kitchen knife in one hand and looking at him with a gloomy expression.

"Master too?"

Seeing this, Xie Yi shook his head amusingly, and Xia Yi on the other side also smiled.

Le Wuyi didn't find it funny, so he meowed, Grand Master, what are you trying to do with the knife?The originally playful expression immediately subsided, and Le Wuyi straightened his expression and said, "Grand Master, we are back." Trying to create an image of an elite disciple.

Shen Ye took a look at Le Wuyi, saw Xie Yi's funny face, and stuffed it with his hand, but slipped the kitchen knife into Le Wuyi's hand: "I just started preparing lunch, since you're back, Let's go to the kitchen."

"Ah? But..." Before Le Wuyi finished speaking, Xia Yi walked up quickly, and walked in with his arms around Le Wuyi's shoulders.

"Wait, Yize..." Le Wuyi was still a little reluctant as he was being pushed away, he hadn't had a good chat with his master yet.

Xia Yi's expression was so calm, and there was no sign of abnormality: "It's the same, let's see what we have for lunch today."

"But..." Le Wuyi was still struggling.

Xia Yi sighed: "As juniors, how can we let Mr. Shen and Senior Xie prepare meals for us?"

"but I……"

Xia Yi continued to interrupt: "No difference," his eyes are so sincere, like the deepest galaxy, from which you can see the light of sincerity, "You don't want Senior Xie to taste your craft? These days You haven't been able to find a chance, have you?"

Le Wuyi was startled when he heard the words, and then he was full of motivation: "Yi Ze, you are right!" Gearing up, he rushed to the kitchen, the master hadn't eaten the dishes he cooked yet!

Seeing this, Xia Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and looked back at the two figures at the door: "It seems to be safe..."

Seeing that Le Wuyi and Xia Yi left, Xie Yi didn't say anything. The news they got would naturally come to light later, and Shen Ye just stood beside Xie Yi, watching with him Just an old man chopping a chopping board.

The sound of "tuk tuk tuk" lasted for a while before it stopped. Facing the old lady who finally stopped, Xie Yi did not forget to express his gratitude: "Thank you, old man."

The old woman just said warmly: "Thank you, this house is empty and it is empty, you rent it just right."

But it turned out that the old lady was the owner of the stilted building where four people lived temporarily. Because she moved to another place with her son, the gate building was vacant. One month, not to mention that the old man is happy, the rental fee alone is enough for the old lady to entertain them warmly.Therefore, in order to fulfill his friendship as a landlord, the old man took the initiative to drive away the grass hag for the guests.

"Besides, you are still university students. It's no problem for me to invite you to stay here for free, old woman." Thinking that Xie Yi and the others came here for folk customs, the old man felt that there were endless things to say, but there were some things that he still wanted to remind of.

"But you keep talking about science and science. There are some things my old woman still wants to say. There are some things that your science can't explain."

Xie Yi smiled and nodded: "Exactly. Folklore is different from science. There are some things that science cannot explain."

"That's right," the old lady nodded in agreement. He glanced at Xie Yi, who was extremely gentle, and Shen Ye, who could tell at a glance that he was not an ordinary person. , what is science?"

Xie Yi just nodded.

Xu Xie Yi gave a very good impression, but the old woman suddenly stopped talking, and when she spoke again, she lowered her voice and said cautiously: "Old woman, I think you are also good people, there are some things I still need to tell you. "

Xie Yi flashed a trace of surprise: "Please tell me, old man."

"It's about the old Yao's family," the old woman said slowly, "In fact, none of them died, and there was one alive."

Xie Yi was puzzled and said, "Then why do you say that everything is..."

The old woman shook her head: "No way, the little girl is definitely not dead, but it doesn't count because she is not from the Yao family anymore."

"Why so sure?"

"That little girl was taken by the cave god, how could she die?" The old woman swore, "It's the cave god's wife, we can't tell."

It turned out to be a well-known Luodong girl in Western Hunan. Xie Yi nodded clearly. Know very well.

Due to the terrain and marble rocks, there are many known and unknown natural caves and tiankengs in western Hunan, and those women who disappeared or went crazy, people in western Hunan spontaneously believe that they were taken away by cave gods Becoming a wife or being punished for offending the cave god.

Seeing that the old man was so cautious, Xie Yi could only accept the other party's statement, and the old man's next words determined the direction of the four of them in the afternoon.

"The Yao family's...buried in the afternoon, you'd better not go to see it." The old man was a little uncertain, "The cave god may not like you outsiders, if he offends the cave god, what should he really do?" They can't be saved."

The author has something to say: everyone, I am back alive and updated, I am really sorry to keep you waiting for a long time

By the way, why does it feel like it hasn’t been updated for a week_(:з」∠)_

And recently, I don’t know whether it’s Jinjiang’s smoke or crackdown. I can’t change the attribute of my text, and I can’t even add a label. I was originally a pure love author, but now I just become an unknown author. I’m so tired. won't love

There is also the problem of Xie Yi's terminology, please ignore such an ancient style, after all, he has only entered the WTO not long ago_(:з」∠)_