Walking on the highway of Xiangxi, of course, it is not as wide as the later generations, simple traffic rules, no special traffic police, no signs one after another, quite a simple winding mountain road.

Needless to say, the significance of the highway is 400 years earlier than in modern times, which is one of the proudest deeds of Xu Hao's life.

He regretted that he could not complete the whole journey in person, and could not appreciate the beauty and magnificence of the natural scenery along the way. In the natural scenery of Xiangxi, you can see the vigor of the Song Dynasty painting style, a kind of Taipingpu when crossing the river, the canyon at the foot of the green mountain, the stream lingers, the water is clear and shallow, gurgling between the large stones and fine sand.

The peaks are showing, the green and blue, the beauty of Xiangxi is indescribable, and the color is really indescribable when you look at it in the drizzle or under the sun. At the foot of the mountain, there are some small houses that seem to be intentionally just right, a bay of water around the woods of the river island, a long bridge, a cloud of smoke, herbs and mountain flowers, which can be picked up everywhere.

The mountain ghost in "Chu Ci", Yun Zhongjun, seems to be right in front of him. Many of the peaks are one peak after another, and the twists and turns are staggering, and the women and cowardly men who pass through this place cannot help but feel dizzy and frightened when they walk on them, while normal men will inevitably admire this artificially carved majestic road, no less than the Great Wall.

Xu Hao silently looked at the road in front of him, the people came from the village hundreds of miles away, silently carrying soil and beating stones in the assigned place, thirty or fifty people bowed down and pulled a big stone mill to crush the road, and they were drenched in the rain and starved. Enduring all kinds of abuse, yes, abuse, and trying to complete the assigned labor.

But it is different from the abuse of people in other regions. The people of Xiangxi know too well what it means to connect the roads of various counties, and these lovely mountain people are willing to accept abuse, whenever a section of the road is repaired, they smile with satisfaction, roar to their heart's content, and don't mind the coolies. They went back to the village to live their own little lives.

Nowadays, the road construction presided over by the Ministry of Industry has accumulated rich experience, and there are many related professionals, and high-end talents who can be called masters have appeared one after another. The engineers of the Ming Dynasty who were made by the soil method should never underestimate the scientific and technological level and talents of ancient China, as well as the hardships and hard work of the people.

At the request of the people, the Xiangxi government is doing well in this dangerous project. Along the road, tung tea trees were planted on the hillside on a large scale. And then in exchange for the people to maintain the road, a great initiative, from the Tongcha Mountain is so perfect, you can understand how much Xiangxi people yearn for a rich life.

The smooth passage of the road has brought obvious changes, first of all, Xiangxi people can go out of the mountains, see the outside world, and use labor to improve their living standards. Schools have sprung up, and some Miao people have become scholars. began to use the imperial examination to change his fate.

A large number of men volunteered to become military households, relying on their strong physique and the ability to fight in the mountains and forests. Got a place in the army. The Ming Empire, which is about to move, is accumulating national strength, and once it erupts, it will be enough to shake the whole world, southeast, northwest, and all directions will become the pace of the conqueror's advance

The man's military service did not bring inconvenience to the life of the local family, because the women of the Tujia family are the absolute pillars of the family, and they are almost the same in Yunnan, Sichuan, and the benefits of marrying a shrewd and capable Sichuan girl are well known, and the Xiangxi girl is no less than the Sichuan girl.

The beauty of Xiangxi women is unshakable, whether it is the silver headdress on the head, the gold and silver buckle decoration on the chest, or the embroidery pattern on the cuffs and trousers, all of which shine in the sunlight and are exquisite.

For the costumes and aprons in Xiangxi, the embroidery is exquisite, and the women in the family all praise it, but Xu Hao told them not to wear them, fearing that this will increase the burden of the people in Xiangxi.

Before the ferry, carry the luggage to the riverside ferry for the guests, follow the transition to the other side, and then carry it to the foothold, which always surprises the foreign business travelers, what a mountain! What a piece of water! What a small mountain town! Especially the row of ferries, the boatmen on board, the porters with their luggage, at a glance, God! Almost all of them were women.

When he entered Yongshun City yesterday, Xu Hao had already discovered that all the people who sold vegetables, sold rice, opened shops, worked as silversmiths, and even bought vegetables on the long street were all women.

In the Ming Dynasty, including Liaodong, there was no other place where women could show their heads so much and participate in all industries, and the high status of women in Xiangxi can be seen from this.

But when there was trouble, the men all over the city came out, it seems that they are just like the male lions on the grassland, men are usually casual and comfortable, they don't care about anything, and they have to rush out to defend their wives and families at the critical moment, no wonder the proportion of martial arts children is so high, and they are practicing martial arts.

The most mysterious thing in Xiangxi is to drive out the corpse, Chenzhou Fu is also very famous, and the most widely spread is the kind of Gu, of course, Xu Hao is not interested in finding out, and it is too late to hide.

Coming to a village aimlessly, he sat in the tea shop at the entrance of the village to rest, ordered a pot of camellia, and listened to the people chatting.

There is a Zhou family in the village who grows vegetables for a living, and gave birth to four daughters, the youngest daughter, whom the villagers call her a sister, and at the age of fifteen, she promised an apprenticeship in a garment shop.

The apprentice saved a year's wages and played a pair of gold earrings to the younger sister, who wore this pair of gold earrings and carried vegetables into the east gate of Yongshun City every day to sell, because of its prosperous nature, articulate, and handsome, the people on Dongmen Street knew the little sister of the Zhou family who sold vegetables.

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and my sister's reputation has spread, and even the boat people know about her.

In the year of the land change, there was a local Tusi who resisted stubbornly, and the officers and soldiers fought outside the city for a night, and the gunfire rang out non-stop, and all the 300 Tusi people were annihilated. Among them, there was a hundred households who brought his brothers to find the Zhou family, and he didn't want anything after entering the house, just took his sister away.

Although the girl was shocked and frightened, she still said calmly: "You rob me, grab my box too, I can change my clothes!" ”

Baihu played with the musket in his hand and asked, "Sister, do you want to die or live?" “

My sister thought about it and said softly: "If you want to die, you won't let me die." ”

Hyako smiled. Said seriously: "Then you mean to live?" Marry me if you want to live, and come with me. Be my official wife, kill pigs and sheep for you, and put on a feast in the village. I live up to you. ”

The younger sister looked at the hundred households, even if the men of the Han family had some ruffian habits, they couldn't hide their handsome appearance and domineering, they were much stronger than their fiancés, and said: "People eat everywhere, don't hurt people, I'll go with you." ”

So the officers and soldiers killed five pigs that day. Twelve sheep, a hundred pairs of chickens and ducks, invited the people of the village to eat and drink. left a bride price of 500 taels of silver for the Zhou family, which caused a sensation in the entire Yongshun Mansion.

Baihu and his sister went to Jinling after marriage, and since then her sister has become a golden phoenix flying out of the nest of the mountain, a legend!

Listen to the people's chatter with relish. Xu Haoxin said that these bastards are bad and cute. He has a large group of guys similar to the style of a hundred households, who dare to act, are not afraid of heaven and earth, and good and bad things are all due to their temperament, full of young people's sharpness and stupidity.

Suddenly, I saw a woman with red eyes walking slowly, and the people around her got up to say hello, which was a kind of politeness to stay away.

Xu Hao subconsciously didn't even dare to drink the tea, and the woman suddenly stopped. Staring at him with red eyes, he asked, "Where are you from?" ”

Xu Hao hurriedly said: "I am a scholar passing through here, and I see the beautiful scenery of the local area. I just wanted to stay a few more days. ”

The woman nodded and said, "You are good-looking, there must be many girls who take the initiative to be nice to you, if you dare to let the girl down, I will let you die miserably because of your guilt." ”

In an instant, Xu Hao's hair was numb, and he said honestly: "Don't dare, I already have a wife and children." ”

"Humph!" The woman's expression was cold, and she turned away disdainfully.

A woman kindly reminded: "Childe, this is not a joke, you have been remembered by the grass Gu woman, she has always done what she says, don't show mercy everywhere." ”

"I see." Xu Hao nodded heavily, and secretly said that Xiangxi was really terrible.

In most books, the record of the Miao people's Gu release must be related to grudges, and the grudges must be related to men and women. All in all, it is a bloody love story between the new love and the old love in the triangle relationship, and 'Gu' is used as a tool to compete for a lover or take revenge on a negative man, which can make the Gu person either crazy or die.

Only the bell person can untie the bell, this is the record of Gu art. In fact, Xiangxi's Gu art is not well developed, and people here are often very afraid, just go to some remote villages and towns in Guizhou to take a walk, where red arsenic is openly bought and sold in any small stall, it can be seen how many women keep Gu as pets, of course, there is no mystery in the mysterious Gu art there.

Gu has another meaning in Xiangxi, with witchcraft, and the girl accidentally fell into the cave and died, the three can always be linked, forming mysterious myths and legends or a series of terrifying ghost stories.

Generally speaking, a poor and old woman is prone to becoming a disgusting Gu woman; A woman in her thirties is prone to becoming a witch who is chattering with gods; Only young beauties from the age of sixteen to twenty-two or three, beautiful and introverted, unhappy in marriage, and easy to fall off the cliff when walking on mountain roads, are the heroines who everyone loves to hear, fear, and feel a lot of emotion, and dares to love, hate, and kill her lover in the legend of magical Gu magic.

Probably putting Gu is to put insects in fruits and let you eat them, poisonous insects are parasites such as ants, centipedes, long snakes and other roundworms, as for the thousand-year-old Gu King or something, that is something that only exists in martial arts.

The reason why Xu Hao was also scared was because there were indeed people studying this thing, and the Meishan Sect in Xiangxi was said to be an evil place that specialized in teaching Gu arts.

I'm not afraid of Gu, but I'm afraid of poison! There are many ways to poison, it is impossible to prevent it, it is said that there is one of the most poisonous golden silkworm Gu, once poisoned, the chest and abdomen are painful, swollen like an urn, and they bleed to death in seven days.

Even Li Shizhen wrote in the Compendium of Materia Medica, take a hundred insects into Weng, after years of opening, there will be a worm to eat all insects, that is, this is called Gu.

Gu is probably a big magic weapon for women in Xiangxi and other places to protect themselves, and the divorce rate is outrageously low, and the climate and geographical environment here, people are easy to die due to poisoning or stumbling, which adds to the mystery of Gu witchcraft.

Anyway, when the Miaojiang woman arrives at the age of Jilu, it is said that the mother will mysteriously pass on the Gu making technology to her daughter, and give a Gu on the day of marriage, it should be a package of poison, and the next Gu seems to be in Xiangxi in ancient times, it is a reasonable and legal means of killing, and the government does not dare to ask about the case.

Therefore, if the man who marries them will always be as good as jade and clean himself, then rest assured, Gu will never attack on you.

But when you leave your old love and promises behind like garbage, please cherish them! The bewitchment of the Miao Jiang woman will be like a bewitching flower that is about to bloom, blooming for you! (To be continued......)