Tang's dining table

Yunchu had always believed that the "gu" rumored in the southwest should be related to bacteria.

Because, after entering the southwest, Yunchu learned that the southwest barbarians had some chronic diseases that were difficult to treat, such as long-term cough, hemoptysis, black complexion and weight loss, as well as visceral discomfort, bowel sounds, abdominal distension, and loss of appetite. , basically determined to be a poison.

Then, patients who have such symptoms at home will scold them in the village and ask people to take away the poisonous insects until the patient recovers. If the patient's disease does not improve, then continue to scold him until the patient dies.

At this time, the family with the dead person will form a grudge with the "grass ghost" in the village, because the poison is also called grass ghost in the southwest, and the woman who raises the poison is called "grass ghost", usually in the village. The witch doctors in the village did not dare to actually cause trouble for the "grass hag", so they had to keep scolding them. Therefore, the curse words in the villages in the southwest were generally very rich.

The explanation of "gu" in the book is the worm in the basin. The moths born after the rot of grain and the worms born from the deterioration of other objects are also called worms. This thing can enter the human body through food and cause disease. The patient will feel as if he is bewitched by ghosts and become confused.

There is a provision in the "Han Code" that "those who dare to poison people or order them to abandon the market".

The laws of the Tang Dynasty listed the use of poisonous poison as one of the most heinous crimes, punishable by death.

The government's punishment for so-called bewitchers is extremely cruel.

In the past, after officials in the southwest caught a woman bewitching her, they buried her body in the ground with only her head exposed. Then they poured wax juice on the bewitched woman's head and set it on fire.

After Yunchu learned more about it, he realized why Gu insects were so popular in the southwest.

Without it, the main reason is that there are too many parasites in the human body.

People in the southwest like to eat pork, and the environment for raising pigs is not good. The pigs are infected with tapeworm disease. People eat the diseased pork, and then feed the pigs their feces containing tapeworm eggs. As a result, tapeworm disease has become a problem in the southwest. He has cured the illness of his children and grandchildren’s endless deprivation.

Children with itchy buttocks can pull out a worm more than a foot long if they pull it. The same is true for adults. If you tell them at this time that it is because they have been poisoned, even the smartest barbarians will believe it.

Not only tapeworms, but also schistosomiasis, human skin flies whose larvae can burrow into human flesh. With the discovery of these bugs that can be seen with the naked eye and can parasitize in the human body, coupled with people's habit of thinking wildly, the concept of voodoo came into being. And was born.

When Luang Po was a child a long time ago, she relied on her "grass ghost Po" mother to live. Although her life was not good, her mother finally raised her up.

Long Po accidentally discovered that other little boys would bully the little girls in the village, but no one bullied her. After asking her mother, she understood the reason why she was a "grass ghost woman", and she determined to become the greatest "grass ghost woman" in the southwest. "Ghost", in this way, no one can bully her.

"When raising centipedes, the most important thing is to plant seedlings. Centipedes know that the weak will eat the strong from the very beginning. Even if they are in the same nest, the bigger ones will feed on the smaller ones."

Luang Po bit into a braised pig's trotter, and while eating, she told Li Si her experience in raising centipedes.

"Always catch centipedes of the same size and raise them together. If you don't give enough food, the centipedes will bite each other. The largest and most poisonous centipede king is selected through this method.

I once mixed the saliva of the Centipede King with water and fed it to those who were poisoned by the poison. The effect was amazing. No matter what kind of poison it was, all the poisons could be removed by the saliva of the Centipede King. The most powerful one was given to a person After the person who got the poison took the saliva from King Centipede, a whole basin of poison came out from his body. Each poison was a foot long!

From that time on, both Wuman and Baiman believed that the Centipede Gu King refined by me was the most powerful voodoo in the southwest, and everyone respectfully called me Long Granny.

No matter they are Wuman or Baiman, they no longer dare to easily step into the Yunwu Mountain Village where I live. Even when the people in the village come out, everyone is in awe, for fear that I will poison them. The old woman also thought it was a poison.

Even a big tribe like Manlongdong invited me into their tribe and provided them with delicious food... By the way, can I still eat such delicious pig's trotters after I go to Chang'an? "

Li Si was also holding a pig's trotter and gnawing on it. The pig's trotter they gnawed came from wild boar. Anyway, Yun Chu would not eat the pigs raised by people in the southwest.

"Of course, this thing is nothing. When you arrive in Chang'an and live in the princess mansion, I guarantee that everything you eat will be a hundred times more delicious than pig's trotters."

After listening to Granny Long's boasting, Li Si became even more kind to Granny Long.

It is a natural thing to eat too much pork in the southwest and get worms in your stomach. If you want to get rid of those tapeworms, Li Si thinks that neem bark is enough. Centipede toxins are mostly active toxins. Once they enter the stomach in a strong acid environment, , it will probably be almost decomposed.

As for the person whose tapeworms were removed by centipede toxin, God knows if there was trauma to the mouth, esophagus, or stomach, and the tapeworms were removed only after the whole body was poisoned.

"Is the person who knocked out the poison still alive?"

Long Po Po took a bite of the pig's trotters and said, "The poison has been tortured for too long. People and poison are interdependent. After the poison is knocked out, the person will die."

Li Si nodded seriously, feeling that this was inevitable.

However, she did not tell Long Po Po this point. She hoped to continue to maintain Long Po Po's status as the number one "grass ghost po" in the southwest, not only to keep it, but also to publicize it.

At least, all the madmen in Chang'an and Luoyang who covet the Yun family must know that if they hurt the Yun family and hurt the people Li Si cares about, they are waiting to be poisoned by Granny Long. Explode and die.

However, the old god is not easy to fool. He must not believe it... He must think of a way to make the old god shut up.

Perhaps because he had been separated from Yun Jin for a long time, and because Yun Jin had been in crisis, Li Si's spirit was not so stable, and the bad nature of the Li family was unknowingly exposed, which was to take anger out on others.

Fortunately, Li Si has only complained to He Zhao, the general of Wuzhe Chongfu.

However, nowadays, the promotion of both civil officials and military generals in the Tang Dynasty is very slow. Prince Li Hong has promulgated the "Trial Measures for the Promotion of Officials in the Tang Dynasty", that is, the number of years an official has served is related to promotion.

That is to say, each official must stay in his position for a sufficient number of years and meet certain conditions before he is eligible for promotion. The Ministry of Civil Affairs will call it a "promotion". Unless a person has made military exploits or has outstanding political achievements, he can be "promoted". "Pull out", even "promote" has a limit, it cannot be exceeded, and it can only be finalized by going through the door, the three divisions, and the Zhongshu.

In the whole world, there is only one person who can ignore this rule and promote officials at will, and that is Emperor Li Zhi.

He Zhao, who leads a hundred heavy cavalry, is originally a special general of Zhechong Prefecture in Wannian County, a fifth-grade Jing County. Such people in other Zhechong Prefectures are at least at the level of Guo Yi's captain, but in Wannian County, In Zhe Chong's house, he can only be a special general.

He Zhao has been tortured very miserably by Li Si recently. But all the remote and poor places belonging to the Tang Dynasty have basically been sent away. Now, it depends on when the princess goes to tell the prince or the emperor. Once she says it, , He Zhao believed that both the prince and the emperor might agree. By then, he would have to circle around the border of Datang for the rest of his life.

However, it was not without its benefits. At least, because of the Battle of Changchuan, he had been promoted by the imperial court to the rank of Colonel Guo Yi.

As the saying goes, wealth can be obtained in danger. Now He Zhao only hopes that the princess can be well served and the court can promote him again. If this is achieved, he can independently command a Zhechong mansion and become the Zhechong captain of the Tang Dynasty. Another dream.

Fortunately, now that Long Po is here, Yun Jin still remembers her birthday. She got two more huge centipedes, and her mood became much more stable.

"Your Royal Highness, I have an enemy in Chang'an..."

When Li Si heard what Long Po said, he was surprised and said, "You are living in seclusion in Yunwu Mountain, how can a Tang Dynasty person provoke your mother-in-law?"

Long Po said: "I originally had a pair of more powerful golden dragons, but unfortunately, they were made into dried centipedes by a Taoist named Sun Simiao. The pair of golden dragons took me a full ten years..."

Li Si stopped chewing the pig's trotters immediately and carefully looked at the pair of black-headed and green-backed giant centipedes he had just obtained. He felt that he could not bring these centipedes into Chang'an, otherwise, these centipedes would most likely become old gods. A medicine in a medicine box.

As for Granny Long's revenge, Li Si thought it was better to forget it. However, facing Granny Long's sincere eyes, she still took it upon herself to take care of it. It was no big deal that she was scolded by the old god after returning to Chang'an.

"What a sign!"

Li Si shouted, and Colonel Guo Yi He Zhao, who was guarding Li Si outside the tent, immediately entered the tent and saluted, without even daring to raise his head.

"When you return to Chang'an, you will lead people to chop Granny Long's enemies into pieces."

"I obey!" He Zhao answered faster than his mind.

After seeing off Long Po, Li Si walked alone under the moon. Although she usually didn't like to use her brain, now that Yun Jin, who liked to use her brain, was not around, Li Si had to think hard on how to stop the old god's mouth.

Yun Jin didn't mention the meaning of Long Po's existence in the letter to Li Si. There were only some love words that made Li Si weak. But Li Si understood Yun Jin's meaning the moment he saw the letter. With Long Po, she became a powerful weapon in Yun's hands.

Although the centipedes raised by Luang Po are just bigger and uglier, they can be caught by throwing a piece of clothing on them, which seems very useless, not even comparable to the slightly more powerful poisonous snakes.

However, if the centipede is renamed Centipede Gu King, this pair of centipedes is enough to turn the lively streets of Chang'an into empty ghost streets in an instant.

As Aye said, the enemy is most afraid when the bow is not drawn.

The meaning of the existence of Granny Dragon and King Centipede is that they are the most powerful and creepy people in the world.