This goes to Xiangxi, the waterway can go up the Yangtze River by boat from Jingdezhen to Yueyang ashore, enter Xiangxi through Changde, and the land route is from Wuyuan all the way to the west, take a long-distance bus across Poyang and Dongting, until Xiangxi, although the road is far away, but the time can be saved a lot, and finally Hansheng still decided to take the land route.
They arrived at Wuyuan County first, and then took a long-distance bus, and at noon, they took a long-distance passenger bus to Nanchang.
In the corner of the waiting room, an old man with a baby in his arms stood there looking at the back of the shuttle bus leaving, and said to himself: "This is a long way to Tianmen Mountain, and there will be nothing wrong on this road, only when you enter the territory of Xiangxi can you encounter danger, I will wait for them secretly on the road to Xiangxi."
What do you say, talented?"
The ghost baby grinned, stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, and cried, "Mommy." ” Han Sheng and Yiqing traveled for three days in a row, and finally came to Changde on this day, and then went west to enter the territory of Xiangxi.
Xiangxi is located at the intersection of the northeast edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the mountains of western Hubei Province, with high mountains and dense forests, deep river valleys, and more than 1,000 large and small streams and rivers, mainly including four major water systems: You, Li, Wu and Yuan.
In the 70s, the traffic in Xiangxi was still very closed, with rugged mountain roads and sparsely populated.
Han Sheng and Yiqing asked the villagers about the road to Tianmen Mountain in the Wuling Mountains, and then started walking.
At dusk that day, they came to a large river, and in the distance there were peasant houses, two half-straw huts, and smoke curling in the night.
Han Sheng and the others approached the grass hut, stood outside the fence wall, and said in a loud voice, "May I ask anyone?"
The smoke of the cooking stove came from the half of the thatched house, which was between the farmer's fire, and an old woman with an old apron stepped out of the threshold and looked at the two uninvited guests.
Han Sheng stepped forward and said, "Old woman, we are people on the road, seeing that the sky is dark and the road is unfamiliar, I want to spend the night here with you, can we?"
The people in the mountainous area of Xiangxi have always been fierce, but they are also very hospitable, and people who generally see the road will never leave it behind.
"Where did you come from, and what are you doing?"
asked the old woman.
Han Sheng replied: "We are from Jiangxi, and we are going to Tianmen Mountain. ” The old woman was surprised, "That's still far away." ” The old woman invited them into the east room and lit a small oil lamp.
Han Sheng looked around, the house was very simple, except for a bed and a few hoes and other farm tools, there was almost no furniture, it seemed that the mountainous area of Xiangxi was still much poorer than Wuyuan.
"Who is in my mother-in-law's house?"
asked Han Sheng.
The old woman said: "My wife has passed away a long time ago, and I only have one son, and I have not come back from hunting, so you two can squeeze this bed in the east house, and my son will come back and sleep with me." ” Han Sheng was startled, and was about to argue, but he didn't know how to speak.
"Okay, thank you, Grandma."
This side is already full of promises.
The dinner of the farmer in the mountains is very simple, a plate of kimchi, half a bowl of spicy seeds, corn batter, Hansheng and Yiqing walked the mountain road for a day, they were already hungry, and the food was quite fragrant.
The old woman's son might not have come back from hunting at some time, and the mother-in-law sat by and chatted.
Han Sheng went out and kept in mind the words of Wu Chushan, and as soon as he entered the door, he had already paid attention to it, there was still dust in this farmer's house, and there was a lot of spider dust hanging down from the ceiling, so Han Sheng concluded that this person did not have Gu at home.
Han Sheng asked: "I heard that there is a corpse drive in Xiangxi at night, will you often meet it?"
The old woman shook her head and said, "That was a long time ago, when my wife died in a foreign country, and finally drove the corpse back home, now it is rare to see it, and I can't see it once a year." ” "I heard that you want to bring a black cat to drive away the corpse, why?"
asked Han Sheng with interest.
"It's not all black, its eyebrows must have white hair, it is called a corpse cat in the industry, most people dare not raise it, only the corpse chaser raises it, this kind of cat is very rare, and the price is also very expensive."
The old woman preached.
"Mother-in-law, tell me about your corpse drive in Xiangxi, it sounds very novel."
Hansheng pleaded, he was born with a sense of both fear and curiosity about these mysterious things.
The old woman rarely sees visitors, and when she saw that Hansheng was innocent and simple, she opened the conversation and said: "Listen to the older generation, according to legend, thousands of years ago, the ancestor of Damiao Mountain in Xiangxi, Apu, Miao language is the meaning of father-in-law, led troops to fight against the Han people in the Central Plains by the Yangtze River, until the corpses were all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, and finally the defeat was to retreat to Damiao Mountain in Xiangxi.
When the soldiers carried the wounded soldiers away, Apu said to the military advisors around him, "We can't leave the brothers who died here alone, you can use some magic to let these good brothers return to their hometowns."
Apu's military advisor said, Okay, you and I will change our clothes, you take the yin gong to lead the way in front, and I will supervise in the back.
So the military advisor disguised himself as Apu, stood among the corpses of the brothers who died in battle, recited a mantra and prayed to the gods, and shouted loudly to the corpses, the dead brothers, this is not the place where Er'er died, and it is really sad to die in vain, the parents of his hometown are looking forward to it, and his wife and young son are looking forward to returning to his hometown, Erlu'er's soul does not need to hesitate, and is as anxious as the law, and the corpses that were lying on the ground all stood up at once, and followed Apu's yin gong and walked southward in a proper manner.
The enemy's pursuers came, and Apu and his military advisors joined forces to cause a fog and trap the enemy in the fog.
Because it is the division of the Apu military division, it means to implement, and it is his spell that allows everyone to get out of danger, and since then the Miao family has called him Lao Si.
The last use of Apu Laosi to resist the enemy is actually fog, and the fog strokes are too many difficult to write, so it is rewritten into a witch word instead, the upper horizontal represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal represents the earth, and the middle one represents the rune, there is a person standing on each side of the vertical, the right one represents Apu, and the left one represents Apu Laosi, which means that two people can unite to do witchcraft to drive away the corpse, which is the earliest origin of the Xiangxi corpse.
"And what about later," Han Sheng asked with interest.
The mother-in-law smiled, and then said: "In the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River in Xiangxi, the place is barren, and the poor people mostly go to the eastern Sichuan or Qiandong areas to work as hawkers, collect medicine or hunt for a living.
None of the Han people who died in those places were rich, and the Han people traditionally had a deep concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial, but on the rugged mountain roads of thousands or hundreds of miles, even if they had money, it was difficult to carry them by vehicles or stretchers, so some people used the relatively cheap method of driving corpses back to their hometowns in Damiao Mountain. ” Suddenly, Han Sheng's heart froze, and his heart suddenly became suspicious, how could this old woman know so much and the words and tone when talking about chasing corpses, it was as if she had changed as if she had changed a person, this was by no means something that an ordinary rural old woman could describe in such detail.
The rivers and lakes are sinister, and the warning of Wu Chushan people sounded in Han Sheng's ears.
Han Sheng was thinking about it, and the old woman asked: "Tianmen Mountain is in Wuling Mountain in Xiangxi, what are you doing all the way from Jiangxi?"
Han Sheng replied, "We are looking for someone. ” The mother-in-law asked, "Has anyone in the family been lost?"
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"No, we want to find a person named Xiangxi Laosuo, have you heard of it?"
said Hansheng.
"Xiangxi Laosuo heard my dead old man talk about it back then, the Han people called Xiangxi Laosuo, and the Miao people called Laosi, that is, Apu Laosi, the dark wizard of Damiao Mountain."
The old woman said.
Han Sheng was secretly happy when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Do you know that he is still alive?"
The old woman glanced at Han Sheng strangely and said, "Of course I am alive, when the old Apu Laosi dies, his son will become the new Apu Laosi, and when the son dies, there will be a grandson, and the ancestors have been Apu Laosi for generations." ” Oh, so that's the case, Apu Laosi, that is, Xiangxi Laosuo was originally hereditary, the dark wizard of Miaojiang, no wonder he was able to rescue the corpse, Hansheng felt that this time he would definitely gain something from entering Xiangxi.
The old woman boiled some hot water, and the long-distance travelers burned their feet before going to bed, which can be a good recovery from fatigue, and it is very good for the next day, the old woman said.
Hansheng and Ichichi finished washing and got ready to go to bed.
In the past few days, Hansheng has been bumpy and tired all the way, so sleepy that he can't open his eyelids, and he has repeatedly warned in his heart that there will be an hour in the early night when he will turn back to the bright moon, and he should be careful not to touch others, but he still fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
Yiqing was tired and fell down on the bed, and the old woman took the oil lamp and gently closed the door.
It was night, the moonlight was like water, and the sky and the earth were cool.
The moonlight gently sprinkled on the bed through the window, and Han Sheng was still asleep.
When Haizi handed over the shift, under the moonlight, Yiqing's twin peaks gradually bulged, only to hear a long shout, Mingyue sat up from the bed Mingyue looked around, and her gaze finally fell on Han Sheng's face.
She silently looked at Han Sheng lying beside her, it was a body that exuded the breath of a young man, two blushes flew on her face, her nose couldn't help but take a few deep breaths, and then sighed softly, got up, stepped under the bed, put on her shoes, pushed open the door, and came to the courtyard.
She forcibly suppressed her heartbeat and repeatedly told herself that she loved the scholar who fell in love at first sight, but for some reason, she felt that Han Sheng seemed to have a very attractive place in his bones, which was indescribable, and this was what the scholar was missing, what was it, she couldn't tell, this was the second man she had met in her life.
Under the moonlight, Mingyue stood there for a long time, her pretty face, her creamy skin, and her raised twin peaks, like a jade statue, she was waiting, waiting for this hour to pass, if she went back to bed now, she was afraid that she would Under an ancient tree not far away, a man stood in the shadows, holding his breath, silently looking at the girl under the moon, who had a huge black head in his arms, sharp eyes, and several white hairs between his eyebrows
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