About "Heart Gu"
"Heart Gu" is somewhat similar to "Peach Blossom Gu". But there is a big difference between the two. The difference is that one is that both parties agree and love wholeheartedly. Once one party changes his mind, both people will die. One is unilateral intention, casting a curse to enchant. Once it is cracked, it will backfire and the person who cast the curse will die. But usually, no one can break the peach blossom poison. Because I can't notice it myself.
I heard my grandma say that when she was young, there used to be a very beautiful girl in the village. Many people admired her, but no one could get her. This girl drinks a lot. The pure glutinous rice wine brewed by herself in the village (which is very different from the kind sold in Phoenix now), she can drink even one or two kilograms of it by herself. She is good at archery (drawing a bow and shooting an arrow) and is also good at swordsmanship. She often goes hunting with her father in the mountains. Later, she and her father went out to the village to sell skins. After returning, she became a little abnormal. She often became distracted and often drank alone and went up the mountain alone. Her father thought that something was on the girl's mind and it was not easy to ask, so he just let her go, thinking that she would be fine in a few days anyway.
(Grandma mentioned this girl’s name when she told me about it, but I forgot it, so I’ll just use “girl” instead)
(When I heard this, I thought it was a girl who met the young man she liked at the market and started feeling lovesick when she came back. I didn’t know it was not that simple.)
In this way, life went on as usual. The girl followed her father up the mountain as usual, and laughed and laughed with her companions, but there was always a little melancholy in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
My grandma had a good time with her at that time, so she asked her if she had a sweetheart (it seemed to be what I thought). The girl sighed heavily and said, I don’t know either. Anyway, I always feel like something is missing in my heart.
Grandma laughed at her. She gave her heart to someone else, so of course it was missing.
She said seriously, no, it's what you think.
Grandma said that she was still young at the time and didn't understand what happened to the girl, nor what she wanted to express, nor did she take it to heart. After laughing and joking for a while, I forgot about it.
After accumulating money to a certain extent, the girl and her father left the village again, but when they came back, they saw only their father. Grandma asked Dad where the girl was, but Dad didn't say anything.
Grandma said that my father looked very serious. She felt a little scared when she saw him, so she didn’t ask.
It took three days before the girl came back. When she came back, she came to her grandmother happily and invited her to go swimming with her.
Grandma was very curious and asked her what happened. The girl was very mysterious and said with a smile, I won't tell you.
(I guess she went to find the sweetheart she met last time, and what happened)
Life is still going on like this (life in Miao Village is very simple, just live a day the same way you live a year),
But the girl's change was astonishing.
The first one who discovered it was my grandmother (looking at it this way, my grandmother and she should have been close friends at that time). The girl no longer went up the mountain with her father, but she went out to the village several times. Her face became worse each time, and she drank more and more. More than once, I even got drunk. Grandma asked her, but she didn't tell.
Later, everyone saw it because they couldn't hide it anymore. The girl's belly is getting bigger.
(I vaguely guessed that it might be a vulgar drama about "an infatuated woman betraying her husband". Later facts proved that I was only half correct.)
The Miao village implements "family law". No one in the village takes the so-called law seriously (of course, no one probably knows about it). If an unmarried girl becomes pregnant, it is an earth-shattering thing. But the Miao people are simple and honest. They only ask the girl to tell the man's name and which village he comes from, and then they will not deal with him. Instead, he sent her to that village. But the girl said nothing. Grandma said that the girl told her later that it was not that she didn't tell, but that she didn't know either. (So avant-garde,)
The girl's belly is getting bigger day by day, and the patience of the people in the village is getting less and less day by day. They will never tolerate a "wild species" being born in their land, and they begin to discuss how to deal with it through family methods (grandma has always refused Tell me what the family law is, just say it is cruel). The father initially begged for mercy for the girl, but the girl could never tell the origin of the child, and she could only wait to die.
However, a turning point occurred at this time—-
This turning point was when the goddess in Linjiadong (the goddess in the Miao village is not the kind of goddess who pretends to be a god or ghost now. The goddess is just a name, there are men and women, similar to the great head-down master, who has great status in the Miao people) arrived at the village. I went there originally to look for some medicinal materials. After I went to the village, I heard about this and went to see the girl. When he saw it, he said, no, things are not that simple. Then he asked Dad in a sharp voice, what happened at the market? Who did you meet? My father just smoked dry cigarettes there. Grandma said that she was anxious at that time (I think she was just curious). It wasn’t until the bag of cigarettes was almost finished that my father said that we met a black Miao (Miao ethnic group). There are still three people from the group. We talked for a while. The girl drank wine with them, and then we went back to the village. But I don't think there's anything wrong. We all have tattoos, and our clothes show that we are Gu Miao people, and they won't dare to provoke us.
The goddess glanced at Dad and said angrily, "Humph, the Gu Miao people have capsized in the gutter!" The girl was bewitched by someone! Moreover, within two months, he fell into the "heart poison" again! Extremely stupid!
Everyone who listened was not surprised. (Grandma told me that if the peach blossom poison and the heart poison come together, no one can solve it. If you abandon the original intention of the poison, you will definitely die.) As a poison seedling, the girl How could Deren be so careless and be fooled? Besides, if the person who lost the poison was the man from Hei Miao, where did they learn how to kill the peach blossom poison and the poisonous insects of the peach blossom poison? (There are many kinds of Gu, which require the use of Gu insects)
Everyone was puzzled. Later, the goddess said, send a few strong men to follow me to Heimiao's village. Don't move, girl. Once the matter is clear, you can do whatever you want.
(Grandma didn’t know exactly what happened after Shenpo and the others went to Heimiao. She only learned about it later when she heard other people talk about it.)
After the goddess and the others came back, they said something to my father. My father's face suddenly turned pale, he lowered his head and said nothing.
At this time the girl came out, and she asked what happened to the child's father, the Goddess Abo (the name was very strange, but the Goddess was indeed a man).
The goddess looked at her and asked, did you know that he was poisoned by peach blossom poison?
The girl said, at first, I didn’t know. I just felt that someone was always calling me. I always dreamed of someone and told me to go find him.
The goddess asked again, why do you want to fall into the heart? Have you figured out his situation? Have you asked clearly about his wishes?
The girl said very lightly but very stubbornly, he said that as long as he can be with me, he is not afraid of death!
The Goddess glanced at her (Grandma said that she could feel the Goddess's sharp glance, which made her whole body tremble when she was watching), then turned to her father and said, Girl, she is from the village, but that bastard , cannot stay in the village. That black Miao man must also be dealt with!
(It’s so scary. What does “dispose of” mean? Kill? I later found out that it’s much worse than killing–)
At this time, the girl screamed like crazy, "No, you can't get rid of my child!" He won't let him go! He knew I was bewitched! He won't joke with his life!
The goddess looked at the girl with a very pitiful look and said, at this time, are you still deceiving yourself? Doesn't your chest hurt? Doesn't your nose bleed? Are you sane every moment? Didn't your Gu insect give you any information? (Grandma said, that is the symptom of heart poison attack)
The girl still didn't give up, shook her head desperately, and shouted, no, no, no!
The goddess ignored her and walked away. She took a dozen strong men with her and went to Heimiao to beg for help.
Dad looked at the girl in pain and kept sighing.
At this time, grandma walked over and sat next to the girl, and kept asking her what was going on and why she wanted to be poisoned? Is it really starting to happen? The girl said nothing. At this time, grandma saw the girl's nosebleed, which was purple and black. Grandma understood everything.
Three days later, the goddess came back, and she came back with a man whom grandma didn't know. She was probably the "black Miao man" (the Miao village has some established rules, for example, if you break the rules of other people's villages) , When other people's strongholds come to ask for people, they usually won't protect their shortcomings. What's more, when someone comes to ask for people, no one can afford to offend them.)
The goddess locked the black Miao man in a hut, then went to the girl and told her, "Girl, this man once rescued someone from our tribe. That person taught him the peach blossom Gu and gave him a Gu, but you didn’t tell him the consequences of playing this poison. And when you told him that you were going to cast the heart poison, he accepted it wholeheartedly. But when he returned to his village and learned about the horror of the heart poison, , he started looking for someone to solve the poison, but how could he find someone to solve the poison in his heart? And he also delayed coming to you to fulfill the promise he made, so the poison began to bite back. You both appeared at the same time. There is a backlash. Now, I will help you get rid of the bastard in your stomach, and then you follow me and kill it with your own hands. Then I will do the trick, then you still have a chance to survive. Otherwise, we will all die together.
(Grandma said she was already trembling at the time. She knew what it meant to "get rid of him with your own hands."
The girl looked at the goddess in horror and shouted, "No! It can't be done! You can't do it!"
But at this time, the goddess stretched her hand from the skirt of her chest. When the girl saw the baby who remembered the death curse in Peach Blossom Spring, she couldn't help but retreat. But how big can a house be? What should I do if I retreat to the end? There are only a few people in the house. Dare to stand there, even venting her anger, she became cautious—the goddess took out a scorpion from the lapel of her clothes, grabbed the girl's hand, put the scorpion up, and then murmured to herself for less than a minute, touching After touching the girl's face, the girl turned pale instantly. Grandma quickly walked over, helped the girl and sat on the chair.
(Grandma said that she had been shaking non-stop. When she supported the girl, she didn’t know if the girl was shaking too)
The goddess said again, sit down for a while and go to Pingzi in ten minutes. Everyone else, come out with me.
Grandma had been with the girl and didn't follow her out. At this time, the girl said, it's over, everything is over.
After a while, grandma helped the girl out. (I have always been puzzled. Grandma has always said that the girl is a very fierce woman, but why didn’t she resist from the beginning to the end? Did she not dare? Or couldn’t?)
(Grandma said that when she arrived in Pingli, she had to bite her mouth hard to stop screaming, and the girl no longer had the strength to stand—-)
A pillar was erected on the ground, the pointed end was inserted into the soil, and several fires were lit. The goddess's body was covered with centipedes and scorpions. His face turned purple.
The black Miao man has become incontinent. (Grandma said that the men of the Miao family are very tough and can make him incontinent. One is because the scene is too terrifying, and the other is because the Miao people know very well that they offend the Gu Miao queen. The fate, early death is a blessing)
(Then why does this black man want to provoke a girl? He even dares to bewitch her? Maybe he is too young? Maybe he is too ignorant? It doesn’t make sense. I can’t figure it out. If you don’t think about it anymore, just listen to it as a story.)
At this time, two people came over with a bucket of blood from an unknown animal. The goddess took a sip and then put a small centipede into her mouth (so disgusting). After a while, she opened her mouth and the centipede crawled out. The goddess held the centipede in front of the girl, stretched out her hand, and said, "Go to the Peach Blossom Spring to memorize the death curse on the baby and feed it to him." Let him swallow it.
(Grandma said that at that time she had the feeling of urinary incontinence. Although she grew up in the village, this was the first time she had seen such a scene.)
The girl shook her head desperately and yelled no! At this time, the goddess said, go, if you want to survive. Even if you don't go, he will still die, and his death will be different and prettier than now.
The girl literally moved in front of the man one step at a time, and the man actually cried, crying for the girl to let him go, so that he would never have any objections to her again.
The girl looked back at the goddess, who said firmly, "Go and ask him to swallow it." Then he nodded to the two people on the left and right of the man.
One of the two people pinched the man's mouth and asked him to open it. The other grabbed his hair from behind and asked him to raise his head. The girl stepped forward, picked up the centipede, and placed it on the man's open mouth. Above, the centipede began to spit out a kind of mucus, which dripped into the man's mouth. The man struggled at first, but gradually, he seemed to be a little confused and began to drool.
At this time, the goddess said, quickly, put it in and let him swallow it!
(Grandma said that she could tell that the girl was in extreme pain at that time, and her face was almost distorted and started to turn red)
As soon as the girl closed her eyes, she still put the centipede in. The two people on the left and right quickly lifted his head upright and closed his mouth. The man's eyes were about to bulge out. He could only see his throat moving very quickly. After a while, purple-black nosebleeds began to flow out, and then his mouth began to bleed.
(Grandma said that at this time, she was already sitting on the ground, and the girl was already lying on the ground)
At this time, the goddess began to splash the man with the bucket of animal blood. While splashing, she muttered something. Then she took off her shirt, and a snake swam out of her body and bit the middle finger of the man's right hand.
(Grandma said that the tattoos on the goddess's body looked like real ones. She was scared of many kinds of poisons when she saw them)
The snake came back after a while. The goddess pinched open the snake's mouth, moved her fingers in the snake's mouth, walked up to the girl, stretched out the fingers that she had taken out from the snake's mouth to the girl's eyes, and said, "Hold it." It swallows the mucus.
The girl seemed to be stunned. The goddess said it twice before she reacted and took the goddess's finger in her mouth.
When the girl swallowed the first mouthful of saliva, the man began to vomit. It was full of bugs, and then blood. Within five minutes, the man was dead.
(Don’t doubt that he is really dead. Not to mention that time, even now, if you kill someone in the far-reaching Miao village, no one will say that you are breaking the law. Of course, the person you killed is a person who deserves to die. But what exactly? It’s a damn person, I don’t know.)
Grandma said that the scene happened when she was 16 years old. The day after the man died, the girl pooped a pool of blood at home, as well as a pink mass similar to flesh (it should have been the child). The goddess sent a person to take the ball of meat and the man's body to the man's own village, and brought a word, "This is light."
The next year, the girl and her father were taken by the goddess to a village farther away. As for which village she went to, grandma didn't know.
When grandma said it, she had a look of fear on her face, fearing that those past events were still vivid in her mind.
(Grandma is literate and has read books. She has recorded many past events that she cannot forget. Unfortunately, more than ten of her diaries have been buried with her… I can only search what is left in my memory. Organize what you recall into the language of a novel and write it out.)