Chapter 20: Gu worms (Part 1)

[Shocking reversal?!! The people in Poshi village will suffer as soon as they go out of the mountains. Is what Contestant No. #7 said true?!]

[This is too magical, could it be that everyone in their village has been cursed?]

[Okay, take back what I said before, these villagers are also poor people, if they know that they will not live long after birth, no one will be in a good mood!]

[……]

After Gu Zhisang’s words fell, everyone inside and outside the studio was full of shock and doubt, and several staff members in charge of filming and supervision in the auditorium also looked at each other in blank dismay.

They were the group of people who went to the mountains to find the village head mother to film the show and asked the village head mother for permission to shoot. They have heard a little about the rumors of this village.

Poshi Village was a village shrouded in misfortune in the mouths of the mountain people around the mountain.

The people inside were despised by the mountain gods, and the gods no longer bless them, as long as they enter this village, they will encounter disasters!

In the early years, there were people from other villages and Poshi village who married and married out. As a result, the daughter-in-law from Poshi village who married outside either died before returning home or suddenly fell ill. A happy event turns into a funeral.

Those women with foreign surnames who married into Poshi Village were all healthy and able to run and dance when they were still in their natal family home. After marrying into Poshi Village as daughters-in-law, they either contracted diseases or died at the age of thirty or forty.

Over time, the surrounding villages all said that this Poshi village must have been committed by their ancestors. They did something outrageous and were punished by the mountain gods.

But the villagers who have lived nearby for decades, don’t know that the people who went out in this village have suffered accidents, and the people in their program team have never heard of it. Gu Zhisang didn’t even know this, did she calculate it?

The villagers of Poshi Village, who had been sullen all this time, looked at Gu Zhisang with an expression of disbelief at this time. After a while, the middle-aged woman on the far right couldn’t help but speak in broken Mandarin with a strong local accent:

“How did you know?”

Gu Zhisang said: “The ‘Fortune-telling’ technique told me. Everyone’s face can show their relatives, fortune, wealth, life or death. These all manifested on your face.”

After the program team sought the consent of the Village Chief Mother and other villagers, she was asked to tell the disaster she saw.

So Gu Zhisang said: “This aunt in a blue dress, there are three child lines in your numerology. All of which are male, but three thin lines have manifested at the gate of your life, accompanied by depression, indicating that these three kids have died.”

“The age difference between the first two children is very close. They should have been born two years difference. They had a good relationship, but they both drowned when they were eight or nine years old. Two years later, your third child was born, and he was healthy until last autumn. He decided to leave the village and died unexpectedly two months later.”

“My three children, why am I the only one who suffers so much?!” As soon as Gu Zhisang finished speaking, the aunt in the blue dress aunt cried out: “It’s all my fault, I didn’t stop my third child from running out of the mountain. I killed him, ah!”

She was forty-nine years old this year. She can be considered “longevity” in Poshi Village. However, she gave birth to three children, two of whom died young, and drowned while playing in Longhu Lake;

The arrival of her third child gave her a little relief, and she gradually forgot the pain caused by the death of her first two children.

Who knows what books he read from outside half a year ago, he was fooled by outsider people who came to investigate and insisted on going out of the mountain with a group of young people in the village, saying that it was better to see the outside world than waiting to die in the mountain.

The aunt in the blue dress couldn’t persuade her third son, and she has a little desire in her heart. What if her son could escape the fate of early death after he got out?

So her only son went out of the mountains and found a job on the construction site. Every time he called her, his tone was cheerful:

‘Mom, the world outside the mountains is more exciting than the ones on TV, I will buy you a smartphone when I save money, and send you pictures outside. If I earn a lot of money, I will buy a house outside and take you out of the mountain nest! ‘

Such a filial son died on the construction site in the third month after walking out of the mountain. He was hit directly by the steel plate that fell from the noose, and even his bones were not recovered.

When the police outside contacted her, she passed out on the spot and almost went with the three children after waking up.

Gu Zhisang pointed out the sad things that had been hidden in her heart, and the aunt in the blue dress broke down emotionally.

After the aunt’s cry gradually died down, Gu Zhisang continued: “Let’s talk about your apprentice, Village Chief Mother. From the looks on her face, she has the fate of twins, that is to say, she also has a twin sister, but the connection between them has been broken. It means that the other girl is dead now.”

The Village Chief Mother’s apprentice covered her mouth, with tears in her eyes as she choked up and said:

“That’s right, my sister was also among those who came out of the mountain. She was hit by a car at an intersection in the city at night. The driver ran away and has not been caught. I want to go out and find out about this matter, but… …”

Both her parents and master seriously opposed her when they heard that she was going to leave the mountain. They locked her at home to prevent her from going out. When her sister was transported back to the mountain, only the ashes in the box remained.

Her father smoked dry cigarettes at the door all night: “This is our fate, anyone who walks out of the mountains will suffer, and your sister just won’t listen.”

Besides the two families, Gu Zhisang also said that the other families she saw when watching the sacrificial ceremony, of them had children’s ties in their faces, but they had all been broken.

All these were also confirmed by the villagers present. They were all families of young people who had left the mountain but died outside.

Everyone was stunned, even Xun Yiqing stared as if he didn’t want to believe it, but he couldn’t refute it.

[Except Gu Zhisang, whoever says she doesn’t know metaphysics is deaf and blind!]

[It’s too tragic, too tragic, the three children of this aunt in blue dress are dead, how desperate she is!]

[It’s frightening to think about it, brothers, look at the villagers standing in this room, none of them are people who didn’t have a deceased family member recently! When I went up the mountain, I felt strange, because the grave behind the village looked so new, so they have buried not long ago!]

[So Gu Zhisang is the most accurate again this time? Sister Sang is awesome!]

In the uproar of the barrage, the Village Chief Mother, who had been staring at Gu Zhisang, sneered and said:

“For so many years, there have been waves of people who have come to our village to look at the Feng Shui omen and geology of our village, but they are not as sharp as you, little girl!”

Hearing this, Xun Yiqing’s face turned ugly. Was this old woman trying to connotate him?!

“Those mediocre people outside say that our village is cursed and rejected by the Goddess of the Mountain. It’s ridiculously shallow-sighted! How can the goddess compare with those mortal bloodlines!”

“Guarding Poshan Village is our mission. We live in our place. You extroverts insist on disturbing us and bewitching the young people in our village.” The Village Chief Mother said coldly: “Those ignorant people betrayed the Goddess of the Mountain, as a result, this punishment was given to us by the mountain gods!”

The program crew and the audience behind the camera finally knew why these villagers showed hatred and wanted to yell and smash when they saw them and the machine carried by the cameraman.

In their eyes, it was the outsiders who brought knowledge and the splendor of the outside world to the mountains. The school education they talked about, the books and TV sets they brought with them, made the young people in the mountains feel restless.

Young children were no longer willing to guard the mountain all their lives. They insist on going out to see the outside world. It was because of this that they angered the mountain god and condemned them.


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