The land at the junction of Hunan and Guizhou has dangerous mountains and inaccessible people.
It is covered with a large area of virgin forest and has the most mysterious and bizarre legends.
It is said that the most deadly things in the deep mountains and old forests are fairies and ghosts, which are old raccoons that have lived for hundreds of years, scorpions that have lived for thousands of years, long worms, such as ancient cranes and strange deer.
Although these legends are almost absurd, they do contain many rare things.
I once heard some old people who participated in the battle against bandits say that at that time, the People's Liberation Army chased the bandits deep into the mountains, and all they could see was the thick shade in the forest. ,old The ferocious branches of the tree slanted out across the sky, and among the weeds, ancient stone figures, stone beasts, tombstones, and the bones of unknown humans or beasts were all looming among them.
Even in broad daylight, even if you walked into the mountains, you would still see them.
Feeling shuddering.
The most deadly thing in the mountains is the mountain scorpion.
Many PLA soldiers were poisoned and died.
Later, through the guidance of local herb collectors, the army learned the habits of the mountain scorpion and effectively avoided casualties.
It turns out that scorpions like to live in hillside gravels, under fallen leaves, in gaps in slopes, in tree bark, in cracks in walls, in caves, and in dark places in wastelands.
Scorpions in the mountains are unusual.
Their appearance is closer to the "Black Pipa".
The breeding period of mountain scorpions is always yin moon and cloudy day.
At this time, they especially like to crawl into coffins.
It is the smell of corpse poison in the dead bodies in the coffins that can make them go crazy.
At that time, mountain scorpions It is the most dangerous and cruel.
Anyone who guards the yizhuang at the junction of Hunan and Guizhou knows this rule, so during the lunar month of the lunar year, a large amount of peppercorns will be sprinkled in all the nooks and crannies of the house.
The peppercorns can overcome the poison of scorpions and are their natural nemesis.
With Sichuan peppercorns, scorpions will not dare to burrow inside.
It is said that there used to be a smooth and flat bluestone in the valley, covered with green moss.
People who were passing by would be happy to sit on it to rest and cool down.
However, anyone who sat on it would die suddenly after returning home, and their bodies would be covered with blood.
The reason has never been found, and over time, no one dared to sit there anymore.
One year, there was a young salesman who was walking through the mountains carrying a large bag of peppercorns.
He was a stranger from outside and didn’t know how good he was.
When he got tired from walking, he lay down on the bluestone and took a nap.
When he woke up, he found dead scorpions all around the sack. , all the size of a palm, he went out After telling the mountain people about this, they all realized that there were countless mountain scorpions hidden under the huge rock.
Those who died in the past were poisoned by scorpions through the stone slab.
If this young man hadn't carried a bag of peppercorns, he would have done what he did now.
The ghost of the underworld who died has died.
There is also a folk proverb circulating in the mountains: "A scorpion has no mother since he was a child."
This means that a scorpion will only lay a nest of baby scorpions in its lifetime.
The number is exactly thirty Six, there will never be one more; or one less, there is another saying among the people that this mountain scorpion belongs to the dominoes, and the number of dominoes is exactly thirty-six.
Scorpions and dominoes are the same as the celestial number. , which happens to correspond to the Thirty-six Tiangang constellations.
In addition, it is also said that "Mountain Scorpions will see singles when they are alone, and they will see pairs when they are in pairs."
Days are calculated according to the lunar calendar, and double days must appear in pairs.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding of the habits of scorpions, and it is not trustworthy
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