After walking for a few minutes, they arrived at Village Head Abu's house. Although his house was also a foot tower, the area it covered was not small, and the lighting was extremely good. When they entered the second floor's room, they realized that there was not only a TV, but also a sofa, coffee table, and a series of furniture and appliances.
"You two, come try our local green tea, although it is not as good as the Pu'er and Yunnan red tea from other places, but the taste is definitely not bad. More importantly, the water that makes the tea is our local mountain spring water, the water is sweet and the tea leaves you brew will have an endless aftertaste!"
Just as he sat down, Village Head Abu brought him two cups of tea.
"Thank you."
Mao Xiaoting drank a mouthful of tea after receiving the cup. She then nodded her head and said, "The tea has a rich but light aroma.
Hearing Mao Xiaoting's evaluation, the village chief laughed: "That's right, these few years it was all thanks to the Party's policy, and all the water in the village was poured into water last year. Without even needing to go outside to carry the water, we could drink the sweet and clear mountain spring water at home, thus producing such a good tea."
"Cough, cough!"
At this time, Xiang Anjie coughed, and then looked at A Jin who was at the side.
A Jin knew that Xiang Anjie was worrying about something, and did not want to waste time, so she opened her mouth and said: "Abou, actually, the two of them came this time because they have something to take care of."
"Working? "What's the matter?"
Upon hearing this, Boo was stunned.
"They're looking for someone!"
"Who?"
"Voodoo Gu Master!"
When A Jin said these three words, the previously smiling Abou was startled, but following that, the smile on his face slowly froze, and then fell into silence.
Seeing that, A Jin and A Wen looked at each other, and then A Jin hurriedly said: "Abou, this Mao Xiaoting is the savior of me and A Wen. If it wasn't for her five years ago, I'm afraid A Wen and I would have been killed by evil spirits …"
Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Abou raised his hand to signal her to stop.
Immediately, he sized up Xiang Anjie and Mao Xiaoting: "You two, let me say this, if you two were to enter the village alone, the entire village and I would welcome you on your journey, but if you two are here to look for the Wu Gu technique, I'm afraid you two have wasted your time here!"
"Abou!"
Seeing that, A Jin became a little anxious, but Abou spoke again: "I am not done speaking, but since you two entered with A Wen, and this Miss Xiao Ting is also the savior of both of their lives, then things are different. A Jin's mother is a member of our village, and I watched her grow up, so I view A Jin as my own kin. Since you two have saved A Jin and him, you two are my benefactors. "
Hearing this, everyone heaved a sigh of relief, but Abou revealed a smile: "I can tell that you two aren't bad people, but I still have to ask, what do you want to do with our village's Voodoo Gu Master?"
Mao Xiaoting looked towards Xiang Anjie, and Xiang Anjie immediately answered: It's like this, village chief, I have two friends, very important friends. They have a serious illness right now, they have searched all over the entire country, but they were unable to cure it.
"So that's how it is. Since it's to save lives, I will naturally not ignore it …"
"That is to say, you have agreed to let us meet this Voodoo Gu Master?"
Hearing this, Xiang Anjie was pleasantly surprised.
"Ugh …" Don't get excited yet! I have indeed promised to let you all see Voodoo Gu Master, but the problem right now is that this Voodoo Gu Master just happened to be away for two days and went to the back of the mountain to gather medicinal herbs.
"Gather medicinal herbs?"
"That's right!"
The Abou nodded his head, "Our village is called Baishamian, and the 'fragrance' in here is the fragrance of a hundred different types of medicinal herbs. In the spring and summer, when we arrive at the back mountain of the village, you will see colorful flowers of all shapes and sizes competing with each other, and all sorts of fragrance mixed in the air, causing one to become intoxicated. "Amongst the doctors, the most important one is the seedling medicine, and more than half of the recorded seedling medicine can be found in our village. Amongst them, the Blood Vine is the most famous one, as well as the nation's protective plant, the Octagonal Lotus …"
"Uh, Abou, sorry about that, you don't have to introduce us so much …"
Seeing that the Abou seemed to have the habit of selling his own village, Mao Xiaoting said awkwardly.
After being reminded, Abou slapped his head, "Aiya, I'm sorry, I've already gotten used to it. After all, our village rarely visits outsiders, so the moment outsiders come, I can't help but want to introduce them to our village … You must be tired after walking all morning, right? Then take a good rest first, I'll go make you guys something nice to eat! A Jin, please receive these two guests well. "
With that, Abou stood up, and A Wen who was at the side also stood up immediately: "Let me help!"
Just like that, the two of them chatted and laughed as they went to the kitchen to busy themselves, while Xiang Anjie and Mao Xiaoting and A Jin sat in the living room to chat.
"A Jin, is he the only one in the entire Abou?"
After seeing Abou walk into the distance, Mao Xiaoting finally asked in a low voice.
A Jin nodded his head: "That's right, Abou's wife passed away many years ago, he had two sons, but he left the village long ago, and after that, they settled down in Kunming, they thought of taking Abou to the provincial capital to live, but Abou said that he was not used to living in the high-rise buildings in the city, and wanted to go back to his house, so he came back in the end, but his two sons seemed to come back to visit him from time to time."
"So it's like that!"
Hearing this, Xiang Anjie sighed with emotion: "Oh right, on the way here, I didn't see any other villagers in this village."
"The people of Baishamian are simple and honest, normally, everyone would cultivate in the fields during the day and would only be able to return home at night. As you have seen the layout of the village, there are less than 100 households in it right now, and they are scattered all over the village, so it is rare to meet people in the village during the day. However, I think that as long as you stay here for two days, you should be able to get to know a lot of the villagers."
"Oh right, you haven't told us what's going on with this Voodoo Gu Master, I remember you saying that this guy can turn a living person into a zombie, and then into a living person from a zombie, is that true?"
Raising her teacup, she drank a mouthful and then, Mao Xiaoting asked excitedly.
Speaking to that, A Jin laughed, "Of course it's true. In your Central Plains people's minds, every single one of us from the Miao Family must have been infected with a parasite, right? Especially women, am I right? "
"I've heard of it before, but I think it's just a rumor."
Mao Xiaoting scratched her head.
"Of course it's just a rumor. How can it be so powerful?" A Jin took a sip of water and continued, "Actually, the Miao race is a race that has been continuously fusing through history. It is said that our ancestors were Chi You of ancient times, and the Miao race, which existed at that time, were all proficient in the art of the voodoo Gu. However, in the later historical changes, the native Miao race, which was born and bred, also had fewer and fewer and fewer inner seedlings.
"The Voodoo Gu Master?"
"That's right!"
A Jin nodded his head: "It's because Gu Masters who raise Gu have to rely on themselves to raise Gu, so they are passed down from generation to generation, and every generation only passes down to females. Until now, it's still the same rule."
"So you're saying, this Voodoo Gu Master is a woman?"
Hearing this, Xiang Anjie was surprised.
"Of course, the ones who would ingest the parasite would usually be Miao Nu, and Xiang Ge is a great beauty right now!"
Speaking to here, A Jin smiled meaningfully at Xiang Anjie, and his eyes seemed to be saying: You're going to have a bad luck.
"Alright, the dishes are here."
Just then, A Wen and Abou walked out with dishes. Although there weren't many of them, the quantity of each dish was very high.
Soup fish, bamboo tube rice, Miao Family fish jelly, chili bones, fried dung, and a large bowl of oily tea.
"Alright, this is just ordinary food, please do not mind it!"
Hearing that, Mao Xiaoting immediately waved her hand: "Village Chief, why would we dislike such a sumptuous meal? But why are you cooking so fast? "
"It's nothing. The ingredients are already prepared. They were stored in the fridge just now. Just take them out and heat them up whenever you want to have a taste." As he said that, the Abou gave the two of them quite a bit of food.
Mao Xiaoting was obviously enjoying her meal, but Xiang Anjie was in trouble.
On the one hand, he definitely couldn't eat it, but on the other hand, he knew that the minorities were always hospitable. If you didn't eat the dishes given by others, it would be disrespecting them.
Thinking about this, he could only throw a pleading look at Mao Xiaoting.
Mao Xiaoting was naturally able to see through Xiang Anjie's intentions, so she grabbed Xiang Anjie's bowl and said: "Abou, you don't need to give him food, because he won't eat it from the start."
"Ah?" Not eat? "Why?"
Hearing this, the Abou was startled.
As Mao Xiaoting poured Xiang Anjie's food into her bowl, she said: "He's not feeling well recently, the doctor won't let him eat more."
"Ah?" He couldn't eat. How could he? Your body won't be able to take it. "
It was obvious that the people from the Abou s were not bad. Seeing this scene, not only did they not get angry, they instead took the initiative to take care of Xiang Anjie's body.
"Abou, please trust the doctor … Oh, that's right, the doctor said that it's not like we can't eat anything, so we can eat more pig blood s. "
With that, Mao Xiaoting stuffed all the food into her mouth.
"pig blood?"
Hearing this, the Abou nodded his head, "Understood. I will make some good dishes specially for us, the Miao Clan, from the pig blood s for you all tomorrow!"
"Mm, then I'll be troubling you."
Xiang Anjie laughed awkwardly.
Just like this, after eating dinner, the four of them would spend the night at Abou's home.
On the second day, after everyone finished eating breakfast, A Jin and A Wen asked to leave.
Initially, they thought that they could find the Voodoo Gu Master once they came, so they planned to leave together with Xiang Anjie after everything was over. However, they did not expect that the Voodoo Gu Master would not be here, as the A Wen family's guesthouse was busy doing business, and needed their help when they return. Thus, the two of them could not continue to stay here.
Before leaving, A Jin kept apologizing to Xiang Anjie and the others, but Xiang Anjie and Mao Xiaoting didn't care about it at all.
"Alright, I know your family's business is busy, we are already very grateful to the two of you for bringing us in, and we can do the rest ourselves, what's more, don't you have Abou? So don't worry about it! "
Looking at the two of them, Mao Xiaoting said with a smile.
Abou also opened his mouth: "Don't worry, since you are A Wen's savior, I will not delay any further. I promise you this!"
Just like that, after a round of farewell, A Jin and A Wen finally left, while Xiang Anjie and Mao Xiaoting continued to stay at the Abou's home, waiting for Voodoo Gu Master to return.