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Chapter 5 Secrets Chapter 11 Wild Store (Part 1)

Naman is the name of a very remote village, and it is also the last two words in the place name that Guan Zheng left before his death.

It is located in the little-known deep valley. When you get there, you have to take a plane to Kunming, then take a train, and then take a bus to a small town on the China-Myanmar border. Finally, you have to take a ox cart or walk to get to that place.

Ruan Zhan and his group had a very bad schedule. First, the plane was delayed, and they waited for them from anxiety to helplessness. After finally getting on the plane, they actually had a little horror in the air. After getting off the plane, the three of them stayed in the local area for a night and then transferred to the train. Nothing happened, but the following car trip almost made Xiao Xia's bones fall apart. When they finally could take the last means of transportation - the ox cart, they actually found that there were no people entering and leaving the mountain these two days. The "ecological traveler" who specialized in deep mountains and forests could only go up the mountain with two legs.

At this time, Xiaoxia was so tired that she didn't want to speak. Ruan Zhan had always spoken little, and walked in front with her and Xiaoxia's luggage, only Wanli was still full of energy complaining.

"You waste time and money when doing this, why not use your time and space warp?"

Ruan Zhan just pretended that he didn't hear it.

"I'm saying that you need purposeful information to implement this kind of spell. I think you just don't learn well."

"If you don't want to come, get back. Who told you to follow me?" Ruan Zhan stopped and found a shade in the tree, "Let's rest for a while!"

He was not tired, but although he didn't turn around and look, he knew that Xiao Xia couldn't hold on anymore, but he just reluctantly supported him for fear of bringing burden to them.

He sat carefully at a lower position, so that he could give Xiaoxia the comfortable big rock to sit, or stare at her around her. In this deep mountain, there must be many poisonous snakes and venomous insects. Xiaoxia is a standard urban doll and can't stand this.

Originally, he just planned to do it himself, but since he realized that Huang Boheng was very suspicious and had special intentions for Xiao Xia, he had to bring her with him so that he could feel at ease, but this was a test for Xiao Xia.

Wanli loves traveling. He heard that this village is so remote, but it may have a big secret hidden, so he asked for leave and followed him. In fact, Ruan Zhan knew that Wanli was deliberately asking for help.

"I know you feel sorry for Xiaoxia, but have you paid attention to the weather?" Wanli walked to Ruan Zhan and said in a low voice.

"It's because it's going to rain that I'm taking a break."

"Have you been raped? Say such crazy words!" Wanli looked up at the sky again.

He often traveled alone and knew that the weather in the mountains was changing, not to mention that the weather was easy to change now. When they came up the mountain, the weather was very good, but they didn't expect that the weather would change at noon. According to his many years of travel experience, it would rain within two hours, and it would fall a lot. They were unfamiliar with the land and the terrain was not familiar with, which meant danger.

"I asked when I came. Going forward a little further, there will be a three-way intersection leading to different villages." Ruan Zhan raised his chin to the other side of the mountain. "These three villages are either surrounded by mountains or by the water. They are not close to the town and are all mountain roads, so there is a small shop at the intersection, which is a resting place for passers-by. In this situation, I can't reach the vine today, so it's better to walk slowly."

"I wonder why you asked the hotel owner for a long time for a long time?" After hearing Ruan Zhan say this, Wan Li finally felt relieved. "I'm so careful, I asked about the situation halfway."

"I admire you for always running around the world alone, but your life is still intact."

"What I care about is the customs and customs along the way. That one is more interesting, and the rest of the accidents are just small episodes."

"So what did you say after chatting with those beautiful Miao girls for so long?"

Wan Li smiled and glanced at Xiao Xia at the same time. Seeing that although she was drinking water quietly and resting, the cells in her body were paying attention to the two of them. He knew that Xiao Xia was very unhappy about him and Ruan Zhan always discussing things behind her back. He thought that the three of them were partners and should not hide everything from her, so he raised his voice and ensured that Xiao Xia could hear it.

"The Miao girls said that the villages in the mountains here are mixed with all races, and most of them will be sucked, so don't violate other people's taboos or be unfriendly, otherwise they will be sucked. In mild cases, they will get sick, and in severe cases, they may die. If you ask others to remove the sucking technique, it will be quite difficult."

"Didn't they say what the taboo is? Don't offend it unintentionally." Xiao Xia spoke.

"Don't be afraid. People from all over the world are similar. Don't be too curious. Don't break into other people's houses casually. Just respect the other party." Wanli said, "But there is a kind of Gu Xiaoxia who might like it."

"You're talking nonsense, I don't like that thing."

"You don't know, right? There is a poison called "Love Medicine" in Lisu people in Yunnan, which is very interesting. No matter what kind of bird, if you lie on the ground and die, scrape off some powder from the place where the bird dies. This is the "Love Medicine". If you give it to the lover, you will never fall in love with you. You can only get rid of this medicine after taking the cat's claws!"

"You made it up?" Xiao Xia was half-doubted, but couldn't help but look at Ruan Zhan, thinking that if there was such a medicine, she would give Ruan Zhan a little so that he would love her forever.

Ruan Zhan kept lowering his head, because of the cat's paws mentioned in Wanli's words, he suddenly remembered the black cat and the plant that Xiaoxia saw.

If Huang Boheng really has problems, it is possible that those strange deaths were caused by poison. In fact, he had some doubts before and looked through some information. It is said that there is a kind of Gu called Yin and Yang Grass that can move. Assuming the murderer was Huang Boheng, the Gu he laid was obviously much more fierce, and the type was even more strange. Including drugs, the deceased even dug out one of his own eyes.

In addition, what was his motive? What did the deceased feel before his death?

"I'm a little scared when you said it." Xiao Xia's voice sounded in his ears.

"Actually, I've asked for some folk remedies. It is said that you just need not eat randomly and drink randomly. We have water ourselves. If you have to eat, just put the first bite of rice in your hands and leave the chopsticks for eating. At the first intersection after leaving, use these chopsticks to dig a hole and bury the rice in it, and then there will be no problem."

"I still doubt whether you are talking nonsense." Xiao Xia couldn't help but smile when she saw Wan Li being serious.

Ruan Zhan, who was on the side, had never joined the discussion. He looked at the sky and felt that the weather was not optimistic, so he hurriedly invited the other two people to walk to the other side of the mountain together.

The mountain rain came faster than they expected. They turned over a valley and the heavy rain fell down mercilessly. Fortunately, they saw a bamboo building from afar, sitting alone on a pale clearing, seemingly shaking in the wind and rain. But despite this, the three of them ran over without hesitation and ran into the only safe haven in the wind and rain.

There was no one in the store. For some reason, Xiao Xia felt like she had reached another world as soon as she entered this bamboo building.

This shop is no different from ordinary roadside shops, except that most of the furniture is made of bamboo, and it looks cool because there is no one and there is a storm outside.

"Is anyone?" Wanli shouted, but no one answered. He shouted again in several newly learned ethnic minority dialects, but no one answered.

"Is it an empty store?" He glanced at Ruan Zhan.

In bad weather, it is not a good thing to come to an empty house in the deep mountains.

"Stay here and don't move!" Ruan Zhan gave a brief order, and then carefully turned the small bamboo building back and forth.

This bamboo house has two floors, one floor is a dining hall, with five or six tables, and then a stove and a room for storing miscellaneous items. The second floor is three separate rooms, one of which looks like a guest room, but it is the type of cart shop, with only one bed.

The whole house is clean and tidy, there are some ingredients in the stove, and there are daily necessities in the room. It seems that the owner has left for a while. It may be because the people in the mountains are relatively simple, and they want passers-by to have a place to rest, so the room is not locked.

Ruan Zhan felt calmly that there was no ghost energy, but because there was no one, and here was in the middle of the mountain, it seemed a bit yin energy in the rain.

He didn't hear that there would be no one in the store at the foot of the mountain, but there was no other place to settle down in the heavy rain. Besides, no one has been to the town for three days, and maybe the owner has something to do and returned to the mountain.

He hesitated for a moment, and got down from the upper floor, the simple stairs under his feet were creaking, which seemed particularly harsh in this storm.

"No one?" Wanli asked, not putting down the bag in his hand.

Ruan Zhan shook his head, "First change out the wet clothes, then eat something before talking about it."

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The rain actually fell on and off all day, blocking them here and unable to move. Fortunately, they brought drinking water and some food, so they were not so embarrassed when they planned to use it.

I heard that the man was powered on, but there was no wild shop in the middle of the mountain, and no oil lamp was found, so at night, they had to go to bed first.

Xiao Xia was too tired by the journey. Although she felt a little uneasy when she arrived in a strange place, because Ruan Zhan and Wanli were next door, and the rain stopped after nightfall, she only felt the breeze in the mountains blowing in from the window, which made Xiao Xia sleep very heavily like hypnosis.

But when she was sleeping soundly, she suddenly felt someone gently pushing her.

"Is it dawn? I'll sleep for another five minutes!" The bright moonlight in the mountains made her mistakenly think that it was already dawn, and she muttered half-dream and half-awake, turning over and facing the wall.

Push her hand and paused for a while, then continued.

"Three minutes." Xiaoxia thought it was Wanli who told her to get up and begged.

The swaying force of her body became a little more intense.

"One minute." She negotiated again.

However, the 'person' who shook her seemed to be angry and pushed her hard.

Xiao Xia was also a little angry, and used her hands to press her hands on her shoulders, but she felt something was wrong after touching her.

It was not Wanli's warm hands, nor Ruan Zhan's stable hands, but a pair of small hands that only women had. The hands were biting cold and stiff, stiff and dry.

She was startled and woke up immediately. She quickly turned over and sat up, but the hand on her shoulder was still there. When she looked around, she was indeed a pair of small and beautiful women's hands, pale under the moonlight.

However, there were only one pair of hands, and the owner of the hands disappeared. Only one pair of hands was placed tightly on her shoulder!

Her hair immediately stood up and she screamed in surprise, but she didn't make any sound.

Subconsciously, she tried her best to pull those hands, but the hands were as if they were stuck to her shoulders, and they refused to leave, which made her unable to get up. She struggled hard, but still couldn't scream. In the end, she had to throw the ghost hand into the corner.

She stared at the corner and didn't dare to show off.

In the darkness, there was a rumbling sound, and I felt something moving, forming a figure in the corner. Before Xiao Xia could react, she rushed over and stopped less than half a foot in front of her.

She is a Miao girl! She has a pretty face, but her skin is pale and sheds blood on her seven holes!

"Don't sleep in my bed!" she shouted viciously, "Don't sleep in my bed!"

"Ruan Zhan!" Xiao Xia finally screamed, and the voice seemed particularly loud in the quiet night, but there was no echo in the next room.

"Don't sleep in my bed!" Miao girl continued to approach, and a stench of corpse came to her face.

Xiao Xia hurriedly grabbed the amulet on her chest, and Miao girl was so shocked that she floated back.

At this moment, a crisp ringtone suddenly came from the quiet night.

jingle--

The Miao girl let out a "ah" and retreated to the door, but she didn't leave.

jingle--

Another crisp ringtone came, as if I had entered the wild shop a little, and then with the ringtone, I became closer and slowly reached the window of the room where Xiaoxia was.

At this time, Xiaoxia didn't dare to scream, for fear of attracting something. But she didn't understand why Ruan Zhan, who had always been alert, could not hear such a obvious sound, and why she didn't do anything?!

The ghost of Miao girl blocked the door and prevented her from going out. She gritted her teeth and slowly got up from the bed.

The bamboo bed made a squeaking sound, and the Miao girl made an angry grinding sound. These two sounds made Xiao Xia frightened, but she insisted on putting her head close to the window and secretly looking down from the side.

At the end of the mountain road, a group of shadows came over, and the leader was wearing a white cloth dress and a large hat covering his face.

He held a copper bell in his hand, and the ringtone came from there. Every few steps he took, he would roam the bell, and the five and six human figures behind him jumped to the ringtone.

The "people" following behind were lined up, each with a white bag on his face, and the few were tied with a rope between them, walking towards the wild shop with the crisp ringtone!

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Note: Gu is caused by many insects being mixed together. Compendium of Materia Medica says: People who make Gu catch a hundred insects and put them in a vessel. The 100 insects are big and eat small ones. The big insect that lives in the vessel is called Gu. It can be seen that Gu is originally a medicine that specializes in treating poisonous sores. Later, it was used to harm people. Poisonous Gu is mostly developed in southern China provinces, with many species, including genus Gu, horse locust Gu, golden silkworm Gu, grass Gu and picking Gu. The Gu people take advantage of the situation when others are not paying attention.

When the Gu is put into food, after eating it, it will be infected with Gu poison. People who are infected with Gu poison will suffer from a chronic disease. From a modern perspective, this is a man-made strange disease caused by the poison of many protozoa. Some Gu is very harmful to the human body. It invades a corpse insect on the corpse after death. After it invades a person's stomach, it will eat the human stomach. It has strong resistance, and cannot be drowned by water, fire, and knife can't be killed (see the words of Cai Youcong, quoted by the Compendium of Materia Medica).

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Chapter completed!
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