A crow in the desert

I heard that Dali people are the best at playing Gu, so if we want to undo it, we must go there. "

Li Yue opened his mouth, lowered his head again, opened his mouth again after a while, but only coughed a few times.

The crow wondered: "Speak up if you have something to say, what the hell are you doing?"

Li Yue groaned, lowered his head, and said slowly: "I think it doesn't matter if you don't understand the voodoo, since it won't harm your body anyway."

The crow smiled and said, "I can't stay with you forever."

Li Yue paused, nodded and said, "Yes." Then he stopped talking.

Suddenly, a child’s cry was heard from a distance, and a group of adults surrounded them, arguing and making noise. After a while, a fisherman carried a child and hurried back to the shed on the beach, and the other fishermen rushed to surround him. The crow looked at it for a while and said, "I'm afraid I was stung by a jellyfish. Let's have a look."

Li Yue said listlessly: "I don't want to go." He walked elsewhere alone.

The crow walked into the thatched hut, and saw a six-year-old boy lying in the middle of the crowd surrounded by layers of people. His eyes were closed, his whole body was red and swollen, his belly was like a bucket, and his cheeks were swollen and bright. The meridians in the flesh and blood, the child couldn't speak, couldn't see, the breath was weak, only humming a few times in the nose, and tears flowed from the corners of the eyes.

The fisherman and his wife ran wild in a hurry, and stripped off the child's clothes. There was no wound on the whole body, only two thin tooth marks on the toes. The fishermen were frightened and worried, and bowed their heads in twos and threes.The crow couldn't help but said: "The elder brother should hurry up and take the child to see the doctor."

One word reminded the fisherman, he hurriedly hugged the child up, strode out, and headed towards the town.The rest of the people whispered, saying that this kind of disease is very rare, and they probably offended the Sea God, who was angry with the prisoner.They were arguing endlessly, but the fisherman came back again, and the baby in his arms was swollen even more. He returned to the shed, only shed tears, and said after a long while: "The doctor said it was useless, and said that fortunately, our husband and wife are still young and can give birth again." one."

Everyone sighed and felt sad, and suddenly someone said: "Why don't you invite the old man to come and have a look, he is very capable." Others also echoed: "A few days ago, he healed the crabapple tree that had died for half a year, really. His skills are superb." Another person said: "He is an outsider, he is nervous all day long, who knows whether he is good or bad?" Just as he was talking, a child ran out quickly to invite the old man .

The crow thought to himself: It is a great skill to be able to save a dead man, but it is even more unimaginable to be able to save a dead tree. I don’t know what kind of person this old man is.

After a while, I heard a child running and shouting: "The old man is coming, the old man is coming, get out of the way." He opened the curtain on the thatched shed first, and walked in with a golden nanmu walking stick first. Inside the house, there are two pointed poisonous snakes carved on the head of the staff, with blue-faced fangs, very arrogant, and then a green robe flashed in, the crow looked up and applauded secretly, the person who came was about seven or eighty years old, with silver hair, rosy complexion, and eyes It is clear and imposing, just like the fairy in the picture.

The old man walked into the house, looked around, his eyes stayed on the crow's face for a few seconds, then walked to the bedside, touched the wound on the child's toe, and burst out laughing.The fisherman was slightly happy and asked, "Does the old man have a way to heal the child?"

The old man said: "There is a way, but I don't know if it can save the life, so I have to try." After speaking, he ordered the fisherman to prepare ten live roosters.Chop off the chicken head, put the internal organs and blood into the bucket.The fisherman was eager to save his son, so he ran out to prepare for it. In a short while, he came in with a big bucket of bloody internal organs. The old man told the crowd to disperse, but left the crow alone, and said to him: "Take care of the strong man to watch at the door." , don’t let anyone in, and don’t make any noise.”

The crow agreed repeatedly, closed the door, and stood at the door by himself.The old man drew two lines on the ground with his stick, and pressed some button, yellow powder flowed out from the stick, slightly pungent.At this time, the setting sun came in from the window, and the sound of the waves was heard in the distance.

The crow suddenly felt a little nervous, as if he was in an ancient witchcraft ceremony.

The old man put the iron bucket ten steps away from the bed, and stirred the internal organs with a wooden stick. The blood was hot and the smell was pungent. The whole room was filled with a strong stench.After a while, the child twitched violently, but didn't move. A small reptile slowly emerged from the imprint of his toes and teeth. Although the reptile was only as thick as chopsticks, it had sharp teeth, a body covered with golden scales, and a small reptile on its forehead. There was another bead, as bright red as blood, which was obviously poisonous.The insect crawled out inch by inch. At first the crow thought it was a centipede or something, but later realized it was a very rare poisonous snake.From time to time, the snake raised its head and spit out letters, as if probing, and crawled out of the bed in a meandering way, only crawling between the two yellow lines, when suddenly it touched the blood in the iron bucket, and immediately the snake's body exploded, hanging upside down and falling into the bed. Inside the barrel, he swallowed blood hissingly.

After a while, the blood in the bucket bottomed out, the body of the snake was as thick as a wrist, and the beads on the top were as red as eggs.The old man drew a circle with medicine powder to block the snake's way back.The snake rushed left and right, but couldn't get out, half-supported its body, and hissed.The old man smiled slightly, took out a piece of bamboo tube from his waist, there was a small hole in the tube, put the bamboo tube into the ring, the snake immediately went into the hole and disappeared instantly.The old man blocked the bamboo tube with a wooden stopper, tapped it lightly a few times, and said: "It's not a good thing." After saying that, he put away the bamboo tube and turned to leave.

Crow said: "What about the child?"

The old man lazily said: "The snake has been taken out, so he is fine." When everyone outside heard it, they crowded up together and knelt down to thank the old man for his great kindness.The old man hummed casually, turned around and left.

The crow followed him for a while, and said: "The old man saved someone's life, and his merits are immeasurable."

The old man snorted.

The crow said again: "I don't know if it can offset the karma of the dozen or so innocent girls who died tragically."

The old man squinted at him: "I don't know what you are talking about?"

The crow said: "Your Majesty's disguise skills can be described as ingenious. However, the appearance of a person can be changed, but the body, skin, and skeleton cannot be changed. When you played the role of a woman, a pair of big feet revealed flaws. This time playing the role of an old man, flaws But in those hands with delicate skin and tender flesh."

Before he could finish speaking, the old man made a sudden move and threw an object in the face. The crow was already on guard, drew out his dagger to block, and cut the object in half with a click. Where the bamboo tube was broken, the red long snake was rolling and trying to get into the sand.

The crow knew how powerful the poison was, let alone let it escape. He swung his sword and just cut off the snake's head. Hearing a squeak, thick blood flowed out from the snake, instantly soaking a large area of ​​sand .

The old man also stared blankly at the ground, then suddenly went mad after a while, and shouted: "You have ruined my sweetheart!" Under the fury, the wig and beard fell off one after another, revealing a very young and thin face.

The two fought on the beach for a while, and the crow and Li Yue could restrain him together, but it was a little bit reluctant for him to be alone.At this time Li Yue was standing not far away playing with the sand, and the crow shouted: "Li Yue, come and fight."

Li Yue ignored him at all.

The man brandished a long whip and fought with him for a while, then suddenly he sneered a few times: "You ruined the gift I gave to the teacher, so I had no choice but to take you two back."

Crow said: "What?"

The man suddenly withdrew his long whip, waved his hand and said, "Stop beating, why are you always against me?"

The crow said seriously: "You have done bad things. Since I saw it, I can't sit idly by. Let me ask you, the woman in the town had a swollen belly, vomited worms and died. It's all because of you, a monster, isn't it?" Seeing this person acting strangely, he naturally regarded him as a first-class evildoer.

The man said: "Their stomachs are swollen|swollen because I used them as containers for refining Gu. It is not my responsibility to vomit insects and die, it is because of you."

The crow said angrily: "You fart."

The man said: "Originally, after the Gu worm was trained, I took it out, and those girls returned to normal. But you meddled in your own business, drove me away, and prescribed some abortion medicine. They were backlashed by the Gu poison, so naturally going to die."

The crow laughed back angrily: "It turns out that I was meddling in other people's business. There is nothing wrong with you recklessly using innocent women to refine medicine."

The man shook his head again and again: "I am not refining medicine indiscriminately. I kept refining Gu worms in order to offer a generous gift on my teacher's birthday. Those women should be able to do their part for my teacher's birthday. Fortunately, the children in the house are too, but it's a pity that this snake was destroyed by you again."

The crow said: "You are cruel and inhumane, and if I kill you today, it is considered a merit."

The man stood with his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "What kind of person are you? Why do you want to stand up for the heavens? If you say that I have done something wrong, I should be killed. Have you never done a single wrong thing in your life?"

Crow was originally clumsy with words, but he hesitated immediately after hearing what he said.

The man said again: "Looking at the world, there is no one who has been just and kind in his life and has never done a single wrong thing. In this case, why don't you and I let go of our obsessions, sit down and have a drink, I think you are very suitable for my eyes .”

The crow spat: "With someone like you?"

The man laughed: "Okay, you don't think much of me, but what if I can help you get rid of the Gu?"

The crow was startled, and then said calmly: "What's the cure?"

The man said: "You still want to hide it from me, who am I? I am Chu Chenzi, the most proud disciple of Master Chi Yan, the number one Gu master in the world. All the Gu insects in the world are concocted by my teacher.