Taboos in the Underworld: Starting from being paid a lot of money to beg for a child

The night after I was discharged from the hospital, my senior sister and I talked a lot.

It was still a question of coming with me, and this time I didn’t say no.

One is because there is nothing dangerous about this matter, and the other is that before I find that old man who is highly skilled in the art of voodoo, I need someone to tie me up with a rope before midnight.

It is not convenient for Yu Bingqing to do this, but senior sister can do it.

That night, my senior sister tied me to the bed with a rope as thick as my thumb.

The senior sister was not worried yet, so she made a bed beside my bed and connected my hands with hers with a thin rope.

The purpose is to prevent the bugs in my body from controlling my body and jumping off the building.

Fortunately, after a few days of recovery, all the swelling on my body has been eliminated, and I have returned to the appearance of a sunny and handsome boy.

The old master of Gu magic whom Master's friend gave me is not in Guangzhou, but in Jishou, Xiangxi, near Zhangjiajie.

Logically speaking, these people who keep voodoo are generally in the southwest, with more of them in Guizhou, Guangxi and Sichuan.

Originally, the senior sister planned to drive there, but the journey was too far and the place was very remote.

The master's friend only gave me an approximate location because he said he had no direct contact with the voodoo master.

I just occasionally heard some Taoist elders in China mention that this master of voodoo magic lives in seclusion, avoids people all the time, and his whereabouts are also erratic.

But he has an old house in a deep mountain called Xianglong Mountain.

Xianglong Mountain is located in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

We first flew from Baiyun Airport to Hehua Airport in Zhangjiajie. The distance from Hehua Airport to Xianglong Mountain is more than 160 kilometers.

We spent 500 yuan on a local taxi and went directly to Xianglong Mountain.

The village closest to Xianglong Mountain is called Shuipa Village.

We got off the bus at this place. There were not many households in Shuipa Village.

This is a village with beautiful mountains and clear waters. Although it is poor, the village is peaceful.

Like most rural areas in Hunan, the young and middle-aged people here have gone out to work.

Those left behind were some old people and children. Although they looked a little lonely, they were also enjoying themselves.

It was already dusk and sunset when we arrived at this village, and we were not familiar with Xianglong Mountain.

So we didn't rush into the mountains, but found a kind-hearted family to stay first.

This family only has an old woman and a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old.

This old woman is over eighty years old and is the mother of the little girl’s grandma. We call her mother-in-law there.

I heard from the little girl that her mother remarried within two years because her father died unexpectedly while working abroad when he was young.

The whole family was left with no one to take care of them.

This little girl only attended junior high school for one year and dropped out because her family could not afford the tuition.

She said her name was Wang Siqi, "Wang" is the Han surname, and the Miao surname is "仡卡,仡佧", which sounds very complicated.

The children of the poor have already taken charge of the family, and this little girl, who is only 14 years old, has already taken over all the housework in the family.

The family raised two pigs, a dozen chickens, and some rice and vegetables. This little girl took care of all the work.

Her mother-in-law is old and has difficulty seeing and hearing.

Therefore, in addition to taking care of all the farm chores, Wang Siqi also has to take care of her mother-in-law's daily life and diet.

When we entered her house, Wang Siqi was very enthusiastic.

Her Mandarin is not standard, but she is not shy about communicating.

Even though she was born into such a poor family, she has a very cheerful personality. The senior sister said that Wang Siqi is very similar to her when she was a child.

Wang Siqi’s mother-in-law’s surname is Tian.

"Tian" is also a Han surname, and the Miao surname of Tian is more complicated than the Wang surname, called "Gelai, Gielie, Guolu".

These are all transliterated. What is strange is that Wang Siqi calls her mother-in-law not directly, but by her surname.

An unintelligible word was added at the end.

We asked him what he meant, and she said that if it were translated into Chinese, it would probably mean Master Tian.

We didn’t ask much, maybe that’s the custom here, but since we’re not from the Miao family, we just called her Tian Granny.

Although Granny Tian has difficulty with her eyesight and ears, she is in good spirits, and there seems to be a kind of vitality that only young people have between her brows.

Because the accommodation fee given by my senior sister and I was high, Wang Siqi said she would kill a chicken to entertain us.

These chickens were originally intended to be sold for money. Wang Siqi could not kill the chickens and could not catch them.

Originally we said we could just eat some without killing them, but Wang Siqi was stubborn and refused to listen no matter what we said. She also went to the chicken coop to catch the chickens.

In the end, I had to stop Wang Siqi and ran into the chicken coop to catch it.

This chicken coop is actually an adobe house with more than a dozen chickens in it.

The environment inside is very humid and the air is extremely bad, but the chickens inside are kept strong by Wang Siqi.

It took a lot of effort to catch the smallest one inside.

We can't finish the big ones, so if we keep them, we can sell them to Wang Siqi for more money.

After catching the chickens, Wang Siqi did not leave in a hurry. Instead, she stood at the door of the chicken coop holding a brown crude earthen pot.

"Brother, please wait for me." Wang Siqi said.

I nodded, holding the chicken in my hand, watching Wang Siqi open the earthen kiln jar, and said:

"I'm sorry for disturbing you. We have distinguished guests at home today, so we need to show our sincerity. Now we will give you an extra meal and ask for your forgiveness."

I shook my head and smiled, this little girl is really serious.

But when she poured the jar hard into the chicken coop, I discovered that the jar contained a jar of centipedes.

As soon as the group of centipedes landed on the ground, they scattered and crawled away.

The chickens began to rush forward and began to quickly peck at the centipedes on the ground.

In less than half a minute, all the hundreds of centipedes were eaten by the chicken.

After the chickens finished eating, they began to cluck and cluck, as if they were thanking Wang Siqi very much.

"Hey, big brother, let's go to the kitchen house to kill the chicken."

Wang Siqi smiled happily and walked towards the kitchen.

At this moment, my heart almost collapsed.

Because after I saw the group of centipedes, my body became inexplicably hot.

It seemed that he wanted to drive away the chickens, then grab the group of centipedes in his mouth and eat them.

This thought frightened me, and I shook my head violently, forcing my eyes away from the chickens.

"Siqi, where did you get so many centipedes? Do you still raise centipedes?"

When I got to the kitchen, I took the kitchen knife from Wang Siqi's hand.

Wang Siqi said proudly while lighting a fire and boiling water:

"Our family is poor and we don't have money to buy rice to feed the chickens, so we use centipedes instead. These centipedes were raised by my mother-in-law. I heard that my mother-in-law raised centipedes when she was young. I don't know how they are, and she doesn't teach them. I just gave me a big jar with a jar of centipedes on the 15th day of every month. She asked me to feed the chickens some centipedes every two days, so that they would grow faster. In fact, this is also the case for our chickens. It takes three months to reach the height that other people’s chickens take five to six months to reach.”

"Oh, your mother-in-law is so amazing."

I said with a smile.

"What's the matter? Who's really awesome?"

While we were still busy in the kitchen, the senior sister walked in.

She had been tidying up the room before, and now that she had finished it, she came to the kitchen to help.

I chuckled and said:

"Grandma Tian is amazing. She raises centipedes to feed chickens."

"Oh? Siqi, why is the room you gave us so gloomy? It stands to reason that the window of that room faces west, and there is no obstruction outside the window. It should be exposed to the sunset every day."

The senior sister sat next to Wang Siqi and asked doubtfully.

Wang Siqi smiled and said:

"This is already the driest house in our house. The other two are even more humid. Mine is slightly better. If eldest sister doesn't like that house, I'll change it with you, but my bed is smaller. I’m afraid I can’t sleep with my eldest sister and eldest brother.”

"No, it's okay, I'm just weird."

As the senior sister spoke, she opened a snack bag she brought over, which contained a variety of imported snacks:

"Siqi, this is for you, it's delicious."

Wang Siqi took the bag generously and said:

"Thank you, big sister. Big sister, where are you going?"

"We are going to Xianglong Mountain to find someone." The senior sister said directly.

"Ah? Xianglong Mountain? Sister, if you have nothing to do, it's better not to go there."

Wang Siqi put away the smile on her face and said with some trepidation.