Leisure days in the cold palace

Chapter 26 Bewitching people
"Why do you want to teach me to use Gu?"

Looking at the woman in front of me who can be called vigorous, I was a little puzzled.

"In Zixu, every woman has to shoulder her responsibilities." Nida spoke broken Chinese, and from time to time used gestures to help express her meaning, "Although you are not from Zixu, you seem to be Live here often, and in this case, you must know something."

I was a little embarrassed. It turned out that in their eyes, I was almost useless.

"Actually, the most important thing to learn here is hunting, but judging by your physique, I'm afraid it's not suitable for this thing." What Nida said continued to destroy my self-esteem, "So I will teach you how to use Gu. It can also be used to protect other people... Ziwei people only have friends and enemies in their eyes, as long as you live here for a day, you have to shoulder the responsibility here."

I thought to myself, it really is eating people's short mouth...

In all fairness, Nida is a very pretty girl.

Different from the gentleness of women in the Central Plains, Nida exudes a healthy atmosphere almost from the hair. Her vigorous and heroic posture when hunting is played back in my mind over and over again, which almost makes me feel a little thrilling.

The blood of the Zixu people seems to be mixed with some Middle Eastern characteristics, so the face has some edges, corners and bumps.

Nida has a high nose bridge and deep-set eyes. If you look carefully, you will find that those two eyes are glowing with ice blue light, which is very dazzling.

She likes to wear clothes with sloping shoulders, revealing her wheat-colored right shoulder. According to her, this is for the convenience of arm movement.

When I saw her on the first day, I thought she was holding a scepter in her hand, but I didn't know until I got familiar with it that it was actually a short spear that had been passed down for hundreds of years in the Zixu clan.

It was with this short spear that Nida had just hunted and killed the strong wild boar.

As I said before, the Zixu clan is a matrilineal clan society, not only Nida has women in charge, but even the usual hunting is mostly done by women.

The men here only do some simple work, such as picking and cleaning, or do some simple manual work.

Of course, only Fengzhang was an exception.

Sometimes I wonder if it is because Fengzhang looks more like a woman that he has this privilege in the clan.

"Actually, Aino is the best Gu user in our clan, but she has a strange temperament and doesn't like to meet outsiders, so I have to teach you." Nida continued, "Of course, you can also express No, but then you must learn to hunt."

Imagining myself holding a short gun and hunting wild boars like Nida, for some reason, I felt a shudder in my heart...

"Uh, I'd better learn how to use Gu. If it's a pistol, I can still practice it." I scratched my head and said, but my eyes looked at the heavy earrings on Nida's ears, thinking that carrying such a heavy thing would make me uncomfortable. ?

Nida seemed to have expected my choice a long time ago, so she nodded at this moment, turned around and took out a small box from the small cabinet, and put it in front of me.

I suddenly remembered all kinds of frightening legends about Gu worms, looking at the small box in front of me, I was very curious and a little scared.

"This is a newly born Gu, I will give it to you for you to raise."

Nida opened the box while speaking, I took a deep breath and looked carefully, only to see seven small insects with transparent bodies inside the box.Each of them is only as big as a knuckle, and their body is like a silkworm baby, which is very cute.

"Is this Gu?" I asked with a puzzled face. I couldn't imagine that such a cute creature would be related to such a terrifying legend.

Nida nodded, and said, "This is a newborn Gu, and it hasn't recognized its owner yet."

Then she took my hand, took out a silver needle from nowhere, and pricked lightly on my finger.

Fingers were punctured and blood dripped into the box.

The moment the drop fell, the worms in the box smelled the smell of blood, one by one scrambling to move their bodies to grab that drop of blood.

When the red blood touched the Gu worm, its transparent body instantly turned scarlet, as if there was a ferocious beast in its body.

But soon, this Gu worm calmed down again, returning to its original transparent color, still cute.

Without the stimulation of the smell of blood, the Gu worms in the box became quiet.But what surprised me was that only the Gu worm that grabbed the blood drop raised its front half, and started to sway towards me, just like a dog wagging its own tail.

"It knows you." Nida said to me with a smile, "That's it, feed the Gu worms with your own blood, and they will all be yours."

Nida handed the silver needle into my hand, I looked at the needle and at the Gu worms in the box, but I couldn't do it.

"Afraid of pain?" Nida was a little puzzled and asked me with her head tilted.

I shook my head, weighed and said: "Nida, is it true that all Gu are used to harm people?"

"It's not used to harm people, it's used to protect people." Nida patted his chest, "It's used to protect yourself and the people in the clan."

"But Gu poison is very powerful, isn't it? Almost every Gu poison cast will kill a person."

Nidas paid and said: "We will not be safe if we don't cut the grass and roots."

I put down the silver needle in my hand, shook my head and said, "I'm sorry Nida, I don't think I want to harm others, the poison is too ruthless, it will almost kill others if I use it for self-protection, I want to raise a needle That's enough, I don't need anything else."

Nida looked at me deeply: "You don't know, it is very difficult for a Gu worm to survive after birth. Every time a Gu worm gives birth, people in the clan are fighting for it."

"I'm sorry for disappointing your kindness, but I..."

Nida waved her hand, indicating that I don't need to say more: "You are a pure and kind person, but Baiyue is a dangerous place, and you will know it one day. I will keep these Gu worms for you first. When will you If you need it, just speak to me."

"...thank you"

For the next two hours, Nida taught me how to raise and control Gu.

It turns out that Gu needs to be supported by his own blood. After recognizing the master, Gu will no longer be interested in other people's blood.

If a Gu worm does not drink the blood of its master for ten days, it will starve to death.

Of course, with such a small amount of Gu worms, the amount of blood they drank would not be much, but one or two drops is enough.

But I still feel a little depressed when I think that in my later life, I will keep sticking eyes on my ten fingers.

Of course, the days of this kind of feeding will always come to an end, this time limit, that is the day to prepare to make Gu.

Gu worms can be made into various kinds of Gu, but the manufacturing methods are different.

For example, the simplest one is the Cold Gu. When making it, you only need to put the Gu insects in the basin containing the Wuzi River and soak them for half an hour facing the moonlight on the first day of each month. Repeat this for three months. Can.

The Wuzi River is a river not far from Zixu Village. It is said that its source is a snow mountain that has not melted for thousands of years, so the water there carries a cold air that people cannot perceive.

Zhuzi means yin and cold in the Zixu dialect. According to the legend of the Zixu clan, after the death of the clan members, their souls will go upstream along the Zhuzi River until they wander to the snow mountain.

These things are off-topic, anyway, Zixu people's Gu making is inseparable from his own legend.This kind of cold gu is produced, and then the gu is applied in an appropriate way, then the person who has been infected will feel cold all over within three days.The light one is a cold, if the caster is very advanced, or if the opponent does not try his best to treat it, then it is very likely that the poison will rob him of his life.

But no matter what kind of Gu poison the Gu worm in his hand is made, it will consume the life of the Gu worm.So a Gu worm can only be used once.

Returning to my room with the small box in my hand, I grabbed a piece of grass to tease the little thing.

It is really a cute little thing, every time it sees me, it will shake its head and tail at me. I put the grass next to it, and it will crawl there and press down the grass blades with its own body.

Thinking about it, I can't help but feel puzzled, such a spiritual little thing, I'm afraid it will take ten or eight years to raise it by my side, so why can't I have feelings for it?But if it really has feelings, how can it bear to use its life to murder another person?

It's just that here in Ziwei, I'm afraid raising Gu has been a habit handed down for hundreds of years, everyone only regards them as tools, and no one cares about them anymore.

"Poor little thing, sister, I will definitely not make you into a poisonous poison." I played with the blade of grass in my hand and tilted my head, thinking, "What name should I give you? Seeing how transparent you are, just Let’s call you Xiao Ming! Well, hello Xiao Ming, my name is Liu Changqing, from now on you can just call me sister.”

"Who is Xiao Ming?" Li Yishao poked his head in from the door, and looked at my room curiously, "There is no one, cousin, who are you talking to?"

This guy, calling me cousin these days is actually Shunliu.

After staying in Zixu for so long, he was able to get along like a fish in water, and he also understood the language of the Zixu tribe.

I have to say that this person is actually very smart, at least very talented in language.

He is very familiar with the people in the village. The men like to hear him talk about those messy things, and the women also like his appearance, so that he has almost been eating in other people's homes for so long.Today he is the host and tomorrow the west, but he is very busy.

"Xiao Ming is my new Gu worm, do you want to say hello to it?" I asked.

Li Yishao shrank his head when he heard the words, stuck out his tongue and said, "Forget it, I don't dare to provoke this thing. Your Gu worm? Have you recognized the master?"

"You do understand."

"No, I don't know much about the Zixu clan now!" Li Yishao said with a sly look, "Hey, cousin, is dinner in order? Why don't you follow me to Amu's house to eat! He Homemade Origa is the best in the village!"

(End of this chapter)