Nightcrawler: 20 Years of Peaceful Demons

Chapter 107 The Fragrant Invitation

With a "squeak", the door opened, and someone stuck his head out from behind the wooden door, looking at us.

I'm also looking at each other.

This is an elderly man in his 60s and [-]s, with a blue veil wrapped around his head, his face is full of age spots and wrinkles, his eyes are cloudy, and his left eye seems to have some cataracts. In short, he feels very unnatural .

And the aura of the other party is also very uncomfortable, there is a stale aura that has not seen the sun for a long time.

Besides, he was a lame man.

His movement is very inconvenient.

This is a Hmong man, you can tell from his accent.

According to Ma Yi'ao's teaching, I stretched out my hands, clasped the thumbs of my left and right hands, with the palm of my left hand facing outwards and the palm of my right hand facing inwards, and then put them flat together, separated them, and joined them again.

After doing this three times, bow again and say junior Hou Mo.

Hou Mo?

The man sized me up, then glanced at Chu Xiaotu behind me, after a while, he yawned and said, "Hou Mo, this name, is it ear-sounding?"

I said respectfully: "There was a person before who should have mentioned it to you."

The man raised his eyebrows: "Who?"

I looked at him and said calmly, "Ma Yi'ao..."

Hearing this, the other party finally showed a smile on his face, and said, aha, it turned out to be that brat, yes, yes, he told me about you, come on, come in, come in and enjoy the fire.

The weather in October was very hot in Pengcheng when it was still the autumn tiger season, but in this small village in Miaojiang, the dew was cold late at night, and the night wind was blowing, making it slightly chilly.

Ordinary people can't stand it anymore, that is, we rushed all the way and were in a hurry, so we didn't feel much just now.

When I entered the house, it was dark inside, and a kerosene lamp was lit.

I just realized that there is no electricity here.

The room is arranged in a very common stilted building. There is no sofa or TV in the main room, except for a shrine and a few bamboo benches, there is nothing else.

Pass through the main room and come to the stove next to it. The stove was still warm. The old man used tongs to remove the ashes outside, exposing the sparks inside. In the fire pit.

He started the fire in the firepit, and hung a hanging pot on the bracket above the firepit.

After he scooped up the water, he said to us, "Sit down, and I'll get Huzi up."

After he left the stove, I sat down on the bamboo stool next to the firepit, but Chu Xiaotu didn't.

She looked suspiciously at the rather narrow stove room, walked to the big stove and looked at the pots and pans for a while, walked to the door, looked at the main room for a while, thoughtfully.

Annoyed by the way she walked around, I couldn't help but say, "Can you sit down?"

Chu Xiaotu walked up to me and said in a low voice, "Don't you find it strange?"

I said what's so strange?

Seeing my defenseless appearance, Chu Xiaotu was annoyed and funny, and said that you are really naive and naive, have you ever heard of the Three Monsters in Xiangxi?
I shook my head, what the hell?

Chu Xiaotu stretched out her right hand, her five fingers were slender, white and delicate, and then she bent them one by one: "There are three monsters in Xiangxi, the poisonous poisonous corpse, and the girl in the flower cave, and the last two, I won't tell you in detail, just talk about it." The first one is Gu poison; this thing is unique to the Miao people. It is said that it is a poison refined in a unique vessel by using countless kinds of poisonous insects, snakes and rats, exhausting all kinds of secret methods. Life and death are controlled in the hands of others..."

I listened patiently to her, and then asked, "Well, what then?"

Chu Xiaotu said bitterly: "Although Gu raisers are very powerful and can kill people in a flash, in essence, they are no different from ordinary people with average physique, so it's hard to look like nightcrawlers." , You can recognize it as soon as you see it, but it is not without loopholes - poisonous things like cleanliness the most, so in the average farmer's house, the ground is spotless, things are neatly arranged, and there is no breath of life at all, there is more than [-]% possibility. Got a Gu."

I heard her say this, and then subconsciously looked at the place we were in.

I am from the countryside and have been to many places, so I know a lot about rural farmers.

In fact, it's not that rural people don't like cleaning, but because of heavy labor activities, they don't have much energy to take care of it, so the house usually looks messy.

Even a person who loves cleanliness will tidy up and clean up every now and then, but there will always be some omissions.

The most common ones are the mud on the ground, the backs on the table, and the spider webs between the beams.

These are unavoidable.

However, here is indeed what Chu Xiaotu said, the interior windows of the entire stilted building are bright and clean, spotless, even the stove (that is, the kitchen), which is most likely to get dirty, hardly feels greasy.

From this point of view, it is absolutely abnormal.

Chu Xiaotu's speculation might be true.

but……

Chu Xiaotu saw that I was indifferent even after listening to it, and immediately became anxious.

She pointed at me and said why are you still standing there?Hurry up and tell me, what are you doing here? It seems that you are not familiar with each other, so be careful, don’t really get tricked, when the time comes, your wealth and life will belong to others, just let you kneel down and be a dog, you also had to do...

She also wanted to say that footsteps came from the main room, followed by a creak of the kitchen door, and someone came in.

Chu Xiaotu didn't dare to speak ill of others in person, so she quickly shut her mouth.

It was not only the old Miao who came back, but also a young man of thirteen or fourteen.

Although this young man looked childish, he was really strong, with a pair of big dark eyes that were shiny and very energetic.

The old Miao man said to us: "This is my grandson, Xiaohu——Luo Xiaohu."

After meeting us with his grandson, the old Miao man sat across from us, and the young man named Xiaohu went to the cupboard to bring three rough porcelain bowls, and put a little tea stalk in each.

After a while the water boiled, and he made us each a bowl of tea.

The old Miao took his own bowl of tea, stirred it for a while with his rough right middle finger, and then touched his forehead.

Then he picked up the bowl and grinned at us: "Please."

The old Miao man picked up the steaming tea and began to drink it happily, and I didn't hesitate, picked up the tea and took a sip.

This tea is hot in the mouth, then bitter, and after the taste is completely dissipated in the mouth, there is a strange sweetness and fragrance that reverberates in the mouth endlessly.

After I took a sip, I couldn't help sighing: "Good tea."

Seeing me drinking happily, the old Miao man smiled, then turned his head to look at Chu Xiaotu next to him, and said, what's wrong with it?
Chu Xiaotu was a little nervous, saying that I am not thirsty.

The old Miao squinted at her for a while, before he said: "Little girl, you are afraid that I will play a trick in your tea, right?"

Chu Xiaotu didn't expect the other party to be so straightforward, her body tensed up subconsciously, a little incoherent, saying, no, no, this, I, I didn't mean that...

Seeing her terrified expression, the old Miao man stopped teasing her, but took out a bong from his bosom, and put some tobacco leaves in it.

After lighting it with the fire, he took a deep breath and let it out slowly, and then he said to me: "Ma Yi'ao, I know his master; what about you, whose disciple are you?"

Before I came, I heard Mr. Wang Chaoan explain that he didn’t talk to this person who came here. He said in a matter-of-fact manner: “I’m a night walker, just awakened. Although I learned something from Ma Yi’ao and Mr. Wang Chaoan, But currently there is no teacher inheritance."

Hearing what I said, the old Miao people nodded and said, yes, the most important quality of young people is honesty, and you are very good about this.

Afterwards, he took a few more puffs before he said slowly: "I told Xiaoma, turn around and let my grandson Xiaohu take you there, but there are a few words that I have to say first, if you agree, you can come back at any time." You can go, if you disagree, then don't make trouble, where did you come from, where do you go back."

I respectfully said: "Please speak."

The old Miao people said that the place where Ma Yi'ao went was called Tuonong. It was a horrible place, and it needed to go through the Heifenggou. For nearly ten years, no one could enter and come out alive. Xiaohu is my only grandson. After his parents died, he was my lifeblood, so although he sent you there, he could only send them to Heifenggou.The rest of the way, you go on your own.

I said yes.

After drinking tea, the old Miao people said that it is too late today, and you have traveled all night, so you should rest here first.

I left in a hurry, but the old Miao people insisted on sharpening their knives and not mistakenly chopping firewood.

Having said that, I didn't talk any more, and nodded in response.

Who knew that when Xiaohu arranged a room for us, we found out that there was only one guest room. I looked at the bed inside, hesitated, and said, how about I sleep with Xiaohu?
Xiaohu looked disgusted and said no, I don't like sleeping with men.

Uh……

I glanced at Chu Xiaotu, then at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old Xiaohu, and knew that this child was already in the development stage.

How can he bear to be with Chu Xiaotu, a walking female hormone?

On the contrary, Chu Xiaotu didn't have my psychological burden, and said: "It's okay, it's okay, little brother, go to bed quickly, and don't worry about us."

She sent Xiaohu away, then glared at me, and said, what are you doing, you’ve been walking for a day, aren’t you tired?Go to sleep now?
Chu Xiaotu is a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, with no taboos, lying on the wooden bed by herself.

I was a little embarrassed, seeing that the room was empty, without even a chair, and was about to lie down on the floor, Chu Xiaotu yawned, and said: "Go to bed, on the floor, be careful of bugs crawling on you."

I am actually very sensitive to bugs, after thinking about it, I went to bed.

Everyone was wearing clothes, and after blowing out the kerosene lamps, it was dark.

I closed my eyes, but couldn't fall asleep.

The faint feminine fragrance from Chu Xiaotu floated in the air, and her even breathing was heard next to her ears.

I'm not sure if she's asleep or not, distraught.

I don't know how long it took, but I couldn't help but turned my head and looked at Chu Xiaotu inside, only to find a pair of big eyes flickering in the darkness.

It turned out that she wasn't asleep either.

I was shocked, and just about to speak, Chu Xiaotu suddenly laughed, and then said to me: "How about it, do you want to have a shot?"

(End of this chapter)