In the middle of the night, outside a small village in the mountains.
Two shadows entered the village on tiptoe, and then trotted all the way to Nicholas Wang's house, pushed the door open with his hands, and the room was still pitch black.
But as soon as the two black shadows entered the room, they saw a faint fire in the corner of the wall, and a deep voice came over: "You really are here again!"
Smoking a cigarette, Wang Laodan stared at Wang Xuanzhen and Xiang Que, waved and said, "Come and sit, I'll be waiting for you all day too."
"Did you know we would come back?"
"Well, I read the longing and doubts hidden in your eyes from your eyes. I know you will definitely return to the village again," Wang Laodan said in an unpredictable way.
Xiang Que was delighted and asked, "Then what else can you read from our eyes?"
Wang Laodan took a puff of cigarette slowly and said, "You are like a tiger. My eyes are not microscopes. The room is so dark that even male and female can't be distinguished. What else can I see in your eyes? Hey, This kid is so careless."
Xiang Que was speechless, it was so embarrassing to be despised by someone who eats a lot of food.
Wang Laodan was alone in the room, and Mrs. Xu and Xu Tiezhu were not there, so Wang Xuanzhen asked where those two had gone.
Old Wang shook his head and didn't say anything, but asked, "Have you gone to the village?"
"Well, I went there and got kicked out again." Xiang Que asked curiously, "How do you know we'll come back again?"
Wang Laodan took out a candle and put it between the three of them and lit it. The dim candlelight was erratic, but he could still clearly see that his face was paler and less bloody than a day ago, and the bags under his eyes were abnormal. blackened, the whole person looked listless and less popular, as if he hadn't slept for days and nights.
"I haven't seen you for a day, how did you develop such a virtue?" Wang Xuanzhen asked in astonishment.
Wang Laodan smiled and smashed his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice: "Isn't it normal that a person who is about to die is not as good as every day? If you come a few days later, I don't know if I can get up to see you." Woolen cloth"
"No" Xiang Que leaned closer to Wang Laodan's face, stared at it carefully for a few times, and said, "The energy in his body is draining faster, but he didn't let out the dead air. , he is not short-lived, let alone a few days, even a few years will not necessarily die."
Wang Xuanzhen scolded: "You old bastard to win our sympathy?"
Old man Wang said lightly: "I want to sympathize with a fart. Can I exchange money or rice? Are you worthy of sympathy for me?"
Wang Laodan pulled out a rattan box from behind while talking. When the box was opened, three black lacquered crocks were revealed, and then an unpleasant smell came out when one of the lids was opened. Laodan rolled up his sleeves and put his hand into the mouth of the jar.
There was a sudden rustling sound in the crock, and Xiang Que and Wang Xuanzhen saw a purple-colored centipede more than ten centimeters long crawling up his arm, all the way up, until it reached Wang Laodan's face , The centipede's head suddenly poked at his nostril, and then slowly the whole body got in.
Wang Xuanzhen swallowed his saliva and muttered: "This Mai Tai, I have goosebumps all over my body."
After the centimeter-long centipede sank into Wang Laodan's nostrils, Wang Laodan took off his clothes to reveal a bony skeleton, and a bulge more than ten centimeters long protruded from his chest and abdomen. Slowly wriggling.
Centipedes are also centipedes, which can be seen everywhere, both in the north and the south, but this is the first time for the two of them to see centipedes crawling into a person's body, and the person willingly let the centipede crawl in.
"You also raise Gu? Isn't this a Miao people's patent?" Xiang Que asked in surprise.
Old Wang put on his clothes again, and said with a chuckle, "Who said I have a Gu?"
"Thenwhat's the matter with that bug on your body?"
"Someone is raising Gu on me"
Xiang Que and Wang Xuanzhen understood what happened to this strange village in the deep mountains through Wang Laodan's narration.
About 30 years ago, the people in the village were still Miao people. I don¡¯t know when the Miao people in the village moved out, but the village was not vacant. Instead, many outsiders lived in and took root. go down.
Some of the people who entered the village later hid in the mountains because they committed crimes outside and had nowhere to escape. They didn't want to be arrested and couldn't go home, so they could only stay here.
There are also some homeless homeless people who have nowhere to go. These people are not liars who live by begging but real homeless people.?.
After the original Miao people moved away, these later people formed this village. At the beginning, the later villagers knew that the sun rose and worked hard to make a living, but gradually they found that no matter how hard they tried, it was useless. The food grown was not enough to fill their stomachs, let alone exchange for money, and those who had committed crimes and escaped had no way to show their faces. As time went by, people in the village changed their minds and began to spend their days in vain.
Then one day, a group of black seedlings came to the village. They negotiated a deal with the villagers, asking these villagers to raise Gu for them, and the black seedlings provided their daily needs. They did not hesitate to live with the helpless villagers. He nodded in agreement.
This transaction has continued until now, with more than a dozen or twenty people joining the village every year, and some people die in the village every year.
"Is this raising Gu with your body? Are you really willing to raise it? Didn't you know that Gu would shorten your life? It's quite annoying to say that there are bugs drilling into your body, how boring and crooked" Wang Xuanzhen asked in a daze.
"I know, we've known it since we came to this village, and we also saw with our own eyes that someone was hollowed out by a Gu and then died," Old Man Wang responded lightly.
Wang Xuanzhen asked in surprise: "Knowing that you are still raising Gu with your body"
"Hehe, do you think there is any difference between those of us who live ten years and twenty years? Let me tell you, there is no difference at all. Most of the people who come to this village have no attachment to life. They just They don¡¯t have the courage to know their own lives with their own hands, but it doesn¡¯t prevent them from dying slowly after living out their lives. Let me tell you that when people in this village die, they die with a smile on their faces, and most of them have no regrets.¡±
"Including you?"
"Well, I don't regret it, but I also regret it." Wang Laodan said with a sigh: "I don't have any regrets at my age, but I regret bringing those two children here. They are still young. There is really no need for someone in his twenties to be a useless person in this village.¡±
Xu Tiezhu and *** are two orphans picked up by Mr. Wang when he was begging outside. He also gave the names of these two children. They were only four or five years old when they were picked up. Mr. Wang took them to beg together. For several years, until the child was in his teens, begging was no longer a good business, and the things he begged every day were not enough to fill his stomach.
Later, Wang Laodan happened to hear that there was a village in Guizhou that could feed and drink for nothing, and the condition was to raise Gu worms for the local Miao people, so he came here with his two children.
At the beginning, Wang Laodan negotiated with Hei Miao, raising Gu himself in exchange for food, while Xu Tiezhu and Mrs. Xu did not raise Gu, but this situation only lasted for a year or two. Got Gu worms.
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