Chapter 399 Divine Witch Village

Xiuxiu came forward and took a closer look: "Hey, why is this stone glowing?"

After saying that, he reached out and took it. Shen Mingjiao was unable to stop him. Looking at the bright red color on the stone, she swayed slightly. Then he handed the stone back to Shen Mingjiao.

"I've never seen it before. But it looks pretty good!"

Shen Mingjiao looked at her in surprise, not caring about the disappointment, "Are you feeling uncomfortable in any way? Do you feel dizzy when you stare at the stone..."

Xiuxiu shook her head honestly: "No!" After saying that, she stared at the stone seriously and felt it carefully for a while: "Except for feeling a little dizzy, I don't feel dizzy!"

After speaking, she asked enthusiastically: "Is this a precious gem from your Central Plains?"

Shen Mingjiao took the stone and rubbed it back and forth in her hand: "No, I accidentally picked up this stone. I heard someone said it came from your Miao territory. I happened to come here and I had something to do, so I asked casually."

But I have already thought about it in my heart. Ever since I saw this stone in Qishan Mountain, no matter who it is, even someone with a strong mind like Feng Lisheng, will be affected by it and have hallucinations when they see this stone.

This is the first person besides her who has been unaffected by this stone.

Shen Mingjiao put the stone into her hand again, "If you take a closer look, do you feel anything else?"

Xiu Xiu played with it for a while and said with an embarrassed smile: "To tell you the truth, I feel that I have an inexplicable affinity with this stone." After saying this, she laughed first: "Haha! But this is normal. I have been around since I was a child. I like shiny things.”

Shen Mingjiao couldn't laugh. She thought of the inexplicable intimacy she felt when she first saw the stone.

For a moment, she, who had never believed in ghosts and gods, felt a little bit magical. Could it be that this stone was of no use to the Miao people?

Xiuxiu didn't know what she was thinking, she held her chin and said to herself:

"But if you really want to find out, you can ask Granny Chang in our village. She is the oldest and most respected old man in the village. She likes to tell fun stories to the younger generations."

Shen Mingjiao naturally has no objection: "Then I'll trouble Xiu Xiu."

Xiuxiu waved her hand indifferently and continued to stare at the stone. "But Grandma Chang's house is a bit out of the way. Let Aniu take you there another day."

The two talked for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, Shen Mingjiao said goodbye and went back to her room to rest.

The next day, the witch doctor came back and said, "I asked, the patriarch has never seen that kind of stone."

Shen Mingjiao said "Oh", "I want to meet your clan leader."

Through Xiuxiu's reaction last night, she became more and more certain that the stone was related to the Miao people.

The witch doctor nodded indifferently: "I'll ask the clan leader to come over to see you." After saying that, he planned to go back to the room.

Shen Mingjiao stopped him and told Doctor Wu about Xiuxiu's reaction when she saw the stone last night: "Do you think the blood of your Miao people is different from ours?"

After hearing this, the doctor Wu suddenly became energetic: "What's the difference? The blood of people in the world can be divided into four types. This has nothing to do with race.

But what Madam said makes sense, I will ask that girl to get some blood..."

Shen Mingjiao hurriedly stopped the person: "There is no good person who wants to take someone's blood. I am telling you this because I want you to use my blood for research."

As he spoke, he raised his wrist in response to the situation, indicating that he could do whatever he wanted.

The inexplicable hypnosis, and the familiarity with those stones. Coupled with her rebirth, if you think about it carefully, there are quite a lot of strange things that happened to her. If it is not caused by ghosts and gods, it can only explain that her blood may be different from other people's.

But she just had the attitude of giving it a try and didn't hold out much hope.

…

As a medical geek who devotes himself to research, Dr. Wu is absolutely ruthless and doesn't say much.

Not caring at all whether she would offend the princess, he picked up a sterilized knife and made a precise stroke on her wrist, draining out less than half a bowl of blood before stopping.

Shen Mingjiao clutched the bandaged wound and hissed in pain, "I'm curious, how did you survive in the palace, Doctor Wu, if you are so upright?"

Doctor Wu carefully put her blood into a porcelain bottle and sealed it, as if he were treating some rare treasure. Hearing this, he said very uprightly and without humility: "Because I am a prodigy who is good at both medicine and poison. His Majesty needs to use the poison I made, and he is reluctant to part with it." kill me."

Shen Mingjiao: "..." Why focus on poison control? Is this a royal secret that I can listen to?

Xiuxiu took Shen Mingjiao to the stilted building where the leader of Wujiazhai lived.

Patriarch Wu is a gentle-faced man in his fifties, and his features look a bit like Doctor Wu.

When Shen Mingjiao came over, the Wu clan leader was drying medicinal materials. When she heard the noise, she put down the bamboo basket. I came over and performed Miao etiquette.

"Madam, please come in. Yesterday, my cousin came over and said that madam wants to live here for a while. I wonder if there is anything ordinary people can do to help madam?"

Apparently, Doctor Wu came over yesterday and roughly revealed the identities of Shen Mingjiao and his party to him.

Shen Mingjiao smiled and waved her hands: "You're welcome, Chief Wu." She glanced at the drying herbs in the basket beside her:

"Hey, this is Gastrodia elata! It's still top-grade. Does the patriarch know medicine?"

The leader of the Wu clan called his wife to tea, "How can ordinary people know any medical skills? They only know some simple preparations."

"That's not bad. These medicinal materials are in excellent quality and should be sold at a good price."

Chief Wu shook his head: "Madam, you don't know something. The mountains here are steep, and few medicine dealers come here specifically. Most of the people who come here are timber dealers, and some timber dealers will take some prepared medicine with them when they leave.

But young people are more willing to go into the mountains to hunt and log. It’s just us who are old and have nothing to do, so we can earn some hard-earned money! "

Wenshan City is rich in timber, which is also one of the main sources of income for the Miao people.

Shen Mingjiao glanced at the row of medicinal materials on the shelf, including Gastrodia elata, Cordyceps sinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, Chonglou, Dendrobium...

Almost everything is a valuable medicinal material outside, but in the eyes of the Wu Clan leader, it is like a worthless vegetable and radish sold by the way.

If you think about it carefully, you will understand that it is mainly due to the terrain. Although these medicinal materials are precious, they are not unavailable in other places. Pharmacists cannot risk their lives by crossing mountains and ridges. However, many types of wood are only found in Wenshan.

Wanting to understand this, she said directly: "I heard that you have a lot of Panax notoginseng here. I can help you match up and sell the prepared Panax notoginseng to the army. The price will not be unfair to you. I wonder if Chief Wu wants to do this business. ?”

Last time she overheard a discussion between Feng Lisheng and Feng Wu, saying that there was a shortage of medicine for typhoid fever in the army, and some people were greedy for ink. Feng Lisheng had dealt with a group of people, but could not find a suitable source of medicine for a while, and Panax notoginseng was this It was only released a few years ago and is known as a holy medicine for healing. If used in the army, it can save many soldiers.

"However, I am only responsible for pulling the strings. Whether you can be selected? It depends on you."

When the leader of the Wu clan heard this, it could be described as a thousand thanks. Again, no one would have trouble with money. Besides, as the leader of the clan, he naturally had to consider the livelihood of the village.

Next, the Wu patriarch and his wife treated Shen Mingjiao even more enthusiastically, answering almost every question.

"...Although I have never seen this kind of stone, I can ask people in several villages to inquire about each other."

"Then it'll be a problem for the clan leader."

"Madam, I'm asking about the Divine Witch Village!" The leader of the Wu Clan straightened his face and said, "The Divine Witch Village is in a deep mountain to the north, and the people there are almost isolated from the rest of the world. It must have been there for thousands of years!"

"Then none of them came out?"

"Not really." Chief Wu took a sip of tea, "This matter started a thousand years ago. Our Miao people first existed in the Yanhuang and Chiyou periods, and were passed down from generation to generation. Until about a thousand years ago, during troubled times, our Miao people The situation is weak and it is difficult to survive in the troubled times.

Later, we met a great wizard who was very powerful at that time. Because it was so long ago, the details are unknown. In short, it was the great wizard who protected our Miao people and allowed the entire clan to survive in troubled times.

Later, it was said that the great wizard was beheaded by the Lord of Troubled Times for causing harm to the common people. From now on, no one dared to mention the great wizard again.

The tribe only dared to worship secretly, but one of the Shui clan members was die-hard loyal to the great wizard. They believed that the great wizard was killed, and stubbornly wanted to resurrect the great wizard through sacrifice. .

The conflict between the two sides intensified, and the last group moved to the birthplace of the great wizard and called themselves the Shenwu Village. The tribesmen stayed in the village and only guarded the inheritance of their ancestors. "

Chief Wu sighed: "After thousands of years, our Miao people have been influenced by Han culture. From generation to generation, some things passed down from ancient times have gradually faded away. On the contrary, Shenwu Village has preserved those things exactly. .”

The general idea is that the Miao people outside Shenwu Village are gradually being Sinicized, while Shenwu Village still looks like ancient aborigines.

Shen Mingjiao asked: "The great wizard the team leader mentioned is called Yao Guang?"

"Yes, but because it has been so long, many books and silks from that year have been burned. These things are passed down from generation to generation by the old people based on a few words. Madam just listens to it as a story." Obviously he didn't believe it himself. .

"In short, the people in Shenwu Village are very stubborn and ignorant. They don't allow outsiders to enter easily, and there are a lot of fog and miasma outside the village."

Shen Mingjiao: "Then they really sacrificed human beings!"

When mentioning this incident, the head of the Wu Clan had an ugly look on his face: "That's not true, but it's about the same. About twenty years ago, some saint in the Divine Witch Village escaped, and she happened to be rescued by a young man from our village.

There was a lot of quarrel between the two parties at that time, and the saint was not a good person either. She repaid kindness with hatred and indirectly killed the young man who saved her. At that time, we accidentally learned from the people of Shenwu Village,

The so-called living sacrifice is to throw the selected girl into a cave full of poisonous weeds and poisonous rocks and leave her to fend for herself. Those people call it a forbidden place. It is said that people who are thrown in will go crazy and die within two hours. "

After the Wu clan leader finished speaking, he repeatedly lamented his sin.

Shen Mingjiao was stunned after hearing this. This living sacrifice sounded ridiculous, but she keenly grasped several key points.

When there are poisonous weeds in the cave, anyone who goes in will go crazy and die, as well as the legendary Yaoguang wizard.

All these pieces of information were connected together, and the only thing she was sure of was that that's where the stones should have come from.

And those Gu insects refined by Qing Yao,