Blood and tears nurtured dragonfly

  "My master didn't mind, and after a long time, he said to Old Man Wu: 'Fifty years without seeing each other, I thought you wouldn't even want to recognize me as a friend anymore.'"

  "Haha, in your old eyes, I'm just an ungrateful person like that? " Wu Huan's old man laughed and suddenly became a bit despondent: "Sister has already forgiven you, what can I say, besides, the things back then weren't all because of you."

  "It's all over, it's been fifty years already, what's the point of bringing it up again?"

  Nan Li rushed over to mediate.

  Three old men were chatting together, deliberately being enthusiastic and deliberately avoiding something. Instead, they left me and Dog Root, the two people who wanted to hear gossip, wondering what had happened fifty years ago? I was getting more and more curious.

  I looked up and saw that little girl named Ayou Duo also had a sly expression on her face, leaning in with her ear to eavesdrop on the elders' conversation.

  Fellow traveler, I smiled at her, but unexpectedly that little girl turned her head away with a look of disgust on her face.

  Gou Genzi seemed to have noticed something and asked me if I knew A Youduo, why she always looked at me with a bitter and resentful expression.

  I said I met with Ah Yu Duo, but there was a bit of a misunderstanding.

  "Looks like there's been a huge misunderstanding, huh? This little girl's eyes are practically devouring you, what exactly did you do to wrong her?" Dog Root's face was plastered with an extremely ambiguous and lustful smile.

  Gou Genzi is a guy with completely incorrect three views, and I'm too lazy to bother with him now because there's new situation at Master's place.

  The first to speak was the old man in black, I remember he seemed to be Ayoung's grandfather, which means he is also the third brother of the clan leader Wu Huan and the sacrificial Nan Li.

  The old man in black spoke to me as directly as he did that night, and with a flick of his sleeve, said: "Xiao Daozhang, fifty years ago I was still young and ignorant, so I didn't know the story between you and your brother and sister. But now, our village has spent fifty years cultivating five dragonflies, all of which have been lost by your disciple. You must give us an explanation."

  I was furious as soon as I heard it, this old man not only spoke straightforwardly but also shamelessly, if I had known those dragon turtles were life-threatening things, I would rather die than want them.

  So I shouted loudly: "Old man, you can't say that, the one who stole the insect is not me, at most I'm just an accessory to the crime. To say it, your responsibility for not taking good care of it is even greater than mine."

  With my master and mistress backing me, do you think I'm afraid of anyone outside the top three in your village? I've been doing business for so many years, and when it comes to eloquence, I'm far better than a Miao old man like you who can't even speak Mandarin properly.

  The old man in black didn't expect that the Han child who could be pinched at will just a few days ago would dare to shout back at him so loudly now, his eyes wide as ping-pong balls, and the two mustaches on his mouth were even trembling with anger.

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  "You Han child, what do you mean by these words?" The old man in black clothes pointed at me with his cane, his manner fierce and menacing.

  I glanced sideways and saw that Xiao Yu had indeed pulled out her shiny little dagger again, looking at me with a rather unfriendly gaze.

  I quietly took a few steps closer to Shifu and Meng Zhounan, only then did I feel more at ease. Maintaining momentum is important, but it must be based on personal safety.

  "Elderly people, what I'm saying may not be pleasant to hear, but they are all big truths. However, as long as you can help me remove the dragon leeches from my body, I'll compensate you even if I have to sell my pots and pans."

  I didn't know the story behind Long Zhen's body at that time. In my opinion, since the Miao people lived in the mountains, they should be quite lacking in material goods. Even if I had to pay them a huge sum of money for exorcising the evil spirit, it would have been worth spending all my family's wealth to save his life.

  "Shut up and stop spouting nonsense." The one scolding me was my master. In the two days we've been together, I haven't seen him scold anyone so severely before, his facial expression even becoming somewhat unnatural.

  Did I really say something wrong?

  The old man in black clothes ran to my front with a gust of wind, I saw him raise his cane and thought he wanted to hit me, so I subconsciously covered my head with both hands. But the old man didn't move, just poked his cane at the tip of my nose, trembling with anger.

  "Hey kid, repeat what you just said." The old man in black had a pale face, I saw the veins on his neck bulging out, this was a very ominous sign, the old man was really furious.

  Although the old man's spittle splashed on my face, I didn't dare to wipe it off, fearing that it would provoke him and he would directly hit me in the face with his big stick. I could only make eyes at Master Shi Nu, but he acted as if he hadn't seen anything and turned his head away.

  "Little kid, do you know where the dragonfly came from? It was exchanged for human lives! If you really want to compensate us, it's simple, just pay with your life!" The old man finished speaking and raised his stick to hit him, but his movements were a bit big, with some intimidating intent.

  "Enough!" Nan Li Shifu stood up, her face also turning somewhat unpleasant: "The matter of Long Piao's rebellion indeed has nothing to do with him, it's just that our village had a traitor."

  "Right, right, right." I nodded hastily: "I don't know that kid at all, nor did I know that dragonfly was so deadly, purely innocent bystander"

  "You see I'm still in danger at this very moment, don't you?"

  "Shut up." My master jumped up and kicked me with one foot, sending me rolling several meters away.

  Gou Genzi hastily helped me up and asked how I was. I whispered to him that I was fine, Master looked at the kick heavily, but it didn't hurt at all, this is good for me to stay away from that old man Wu, which belongs to disguised protection.

  "My sister, how many of our tribesmen have been sacrificed in the past fifty years to get those five dragonflies? I'm not reconciled to it." Wu You dropped the crutch in his hand and sat back on the bench with a thud.

  "When Ayou was not yet one year old, her mother lost her life to make the dragonfly become a gu. I thought that when Ayou turned seventeen, she could plant the gu, but the gu insect that her mother had exchanged her life for was stolen by someone, and I really can't bear it."

  The old man's face was covered with deep wrinkles and tears flowed freely down his cheeks, while from a corner of the room came the faint sound of Ah Yu's stifled sobs.

  I was stunned, how did this thing get linked to human life? And it's still Ah Yu Duo's mother?

  I hastily asked Master Wuyang what he meant by his words, but Master Wuyang sighed and didn't make a sound. Instead, it was Shifu Nanli who spoke up.

  In the legend of the Miao people, after Chi You's defeat, their ancestors retreated to the land where they now live. Coming to a completely unfamiliar land, the most important thing is to ensure that the tribespeople can settle down and make a living without being disturbed by wild beasts in the mountains and forests or plundered by the indigenous people.

  But as the most proud self-defense force of the Miao people, the Gu sorcerers and priests suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Huaxia tribe, almost annihilating the entire army. In primitive society, Gu sorcerers and priests not only undertook the important task of protecting their tribesmen but also took charge of treating illnesses and imparting knowledge to them; the extinction of Gu sorcerers and priests meant the demise of the Miao people as a whole.

  How to cultivate a group of qualified Wu and sacrificial rituals in the shortest time became the top priority of the three Miao tribes at that time. However, wanting to cultivate Wu and sacrificial rituals, whether it is talent or time, are indispensable, and there is no possibility of rapid success. But heaven does not cut off people's roads, the Miao people discovered a kind of magical insect on Meili Snow Mountain - Longzhui.

  The original place and process of discovering the dragon leech can no longer be verified, but it is certain that the dragon leech comes from the snowy mountains. After countless attempts, the Miao people finally figured out how to feed the dragon leech and turn them into Gu insects. The method involves feeding them fresh, warm human blood, which must come from a female, as male blood-fed dragon leeches are extremely difficult to control and cannot be manipulated by Gu techniques.

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  The dragonfly's killing power is very weak, but it has an incredibly magical effect. As long as anyone who has been infected with the dragonfly can tame it in their body, no matter how poor their qualifications were before, they will be able to transform and become a person of extraordinary talent. Whether learning witchcraft or Gu technique, it's as simple as eating and drinking, and both can reach an extremely high level.

  The cost of raising dragon leeches is enormous, as these creatures are extremely greedy and the people who raise them have to be sucked dry of fresh blood every day, so their bodies are generally not very good, and those with weak constitutions will die prematurely due to physical exhaustion. Moreover, the survival rate of dragon leeches is extremely low, and it took Miao Village fifty years to produce only five precious treasures, which can illustrate the problem. And those dead insects that did not survive, were used as aphrodisiacs by wealthy merchants, sucked dry of bodily fluids and died, shriveled up, a medicine aptly named.

  In ancient times, the natural environment was not polluted and people's hearts were pure, so the spiritual energy in human blood was abundant, and a small amount of fresh blood could satisfy the needs of the dragonfly. Later on, as people's hearts became impure and the environment was destroyed, the spiritual energy contained in human blood was no longer as it was in ancient times. The dragonfly took more and more blood from the Miao people, and later even cases occurred where the dragonfly had not yet matured but the person raising it had been sucked to death. As time went on, this situation became more and more severe.

  "In the past fifty years, we sacrificed nearly two hundred of our tribesmen to finally cultivate five mature dragon wasps. Originally, after this summer, we would have been able to hold an initiation ceremony for the children in the tribe, but at this time, a traitor appeared. Hei Za was adopted by the village when he was eight years old and had lived there for twenty years, yet he turned out to be the traitor. This is all fate."

  Nan Li's long sigh pierced my heart. Fifty years, two hundred lives, even the children of the tribe's younger brother were sacrificed for those five black bugs? What kind of magic would make everyone in this village willingly sacrifice themselves for the sake of these insects?

  That Miao man, Hei Zha, who had only met me once, had actually been hiding in the Water Buffalo Miao Village since he was eight years old, and stayed for twenty years, all to steal those five insect eggs, but what was his purpose?

  At that time, I couldn't understand the significance of Gu to the Miao people. I just thought they regarded a pile of insects as more important than human life, which was simply crazy and terrifying.

  Not to mention the many broken families and tragic stories that have been created. I looked at Ah Yu, she was squatting on the ground, hanging her head and hugging her legs, like a child who had done something wrong, my heart suddenly felt a inexplicable pain.

  The root of all evil - Longzhen, is sleeping somewhere in my body.

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