Since there were no objects related to the two, nor anything that could contaminate their aura, it was difficult for Gu Zhisang to pinpoint their location in the mountains.
Fortunately, the Special Spiritual Department notified the person in charge of the Hunan branch in advance, and ten minutes later, a young Miao woman in Miao clothing and silver ornaments on her head and neck met Gu Zhisang.
She had a slightly blunt face with lovely features and full cheeks, and her skin was fair with a healthy blush.
She was wearing flat embroidered cloth shoes, but she was half a head taller than Gu Zhisang. She should be more than 1.75 meters tall.
The first time she saw Gu Zhisang, she was amazed, then she stepped forward and shook hands and said, “Miss Gu Zhisang? Thank you for coming to assist us in handling the case.”
“My name is Geliao Chan. You can call me Chan Nu just like the rest of the clan.”
Geliao was one of the twelve major surnames of the Miao nationality. Today, there were not many Miao descendants who still retain this ancient surname, which means that only the Wujiang lineage has been passed down from generation to generation.
After some pleasantries, Geliao Chan handed her a scarf embroidered with patterns and said:
“The missing little ‘witch’ girl is my distant descendant. This is the headscarf she used to wear. I brought it for you. I hope it can be useful in finding her.”
After taking it, Gu Zhisang carefully felt the breath on the scarf. After searching, she found a strand of hair. After twisting it up, she said:
“With this, it will be much easier to find.”
She pinched the cluster of spirit fire and lit the hair, and the faint smell of burning egg whites came out.
After rubbing the black ashes of the burned hair with her fingertips, Gu Zhisang looked up at the towering Fubai Mountain ahead and said: “She’s still in the mountain, I’ll go in and take a look.”
Geliao Chan hurriedly said: “Why don’t I go with you? The kidnapper has stiff hair around him. I’m afraid you won’t be able to deal with it alone. Besides, I don’t feel comfortable taking risks alone. Don’t worry, I have been traveling through mountains and rivers all year round. I don’t have much physical strength, but my footsteps are fast, so I won’t hold you back!”
Ever since she heard that the juniors in the clan had been taken away, she was angry and anxious.
But what she was good at was raising Gu, and she knows nothing about searching for people.
The nasty kidnapper used some trick to cover up his smell and his companion, so ordinary police dogs were useless in this special case.
Gu Zhisang wanted to refuse at first, she was not used to walking with others;
But Geliao Chan, a girl who was taller than her, maybe older, pleaded softly and seriously while staring straight at her with a pair of dark eyes.
Her verbal refusal became ‘whatever you want’.
Geliao Chan showed a smiling face: “Okay! What should I call you? Sangsang? Zhisang?”
“Sangsang, did you use this compass to locate the kidnapper? To be honest, the magic tools used by the Taoist Masters in the Central Plains are too difficult to understand. If it weren’t for the fact that there is no Gus I raised who is good at locating, I would have already gone into the mountains and arrested those bandits! He dared to touch people in our village, and kidnapped so many ordinary people…”
Geliao Chan talked more and more to Gu Zhisang, but their speed was very fast. They already came from the foot of Fubai Mountain halfway up the mountain.
During the process, they also met some men and women from Miao Village, all of them looked serious, and they were all looking for missing people in the mountains.
Seeing Geliao Chan and Gu Zhisang, a woman greeted in Miao dialect:
“Chan Nu, you brought an outsider back?”
“Mom, go back, this sister is here to help find Dada.” Geliao Chan replied.
Gu Zhisang sprinkled the hair of the missing ‘witch’ on the compass pointer, and as the pointer drifted slightly, she also changed direction.
When she came to a certain pine and bamboo forest, she stopped suddenly.
The compass pointer in the palm has stopped moving.
Feeling the wind and air current in the forest, Gu Zhisang’s eyes became condensed.
She calmly pressed Geliao Chan’s arm behind her, and lowered her voice: “Can you protect yourself?”
Geliao Chan’s expression was serious, and her baby face looked imposing: “Not only can she protect herself, but she can also kill others. Did you find anything?”
“It’s right here.” Gu Zhisang’s tone was firm: “The aura of the owner of the hair stopped here. I can feel that she is still alive, but…”
There was a coldness in her dark pupils, “There is a bloody smell in the air. Although the Feng Shui Master used Feng Shui to cover up the smell and the real scene around him, it couldn’t hide it from my senses. He and Mao Zombie should be inside the formation. I will break the formation now, you be careful of being attacked.”
Hearing the smell of blood, Geliao Chan’s pupils shrank slightly, with anger unavoidably.
As everyone knew, that kidnapper took ten hostages away!
She was afraid that something has happened to them… …
Knowing that the fleeing Feng Shui Master and Mao Zombie were around, Geliao Chan was on guard, while watching the wind blowing the surrounding leaves. She felt like the Mao Zombie would pounce on her at any time.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw some red marks hanging on a certain tree, and she stopped suddenly. After careful observation, she found that it was indeed a piece of red string tied to the tip of a branch and leaf!
Geliao Chan’s expression gradually became serious, and her voice was gritted, “Sangsang, do you think that bastard is trying to do something here?”
Gu Zhisang asked: “What’s wrong?”
“I suddenly remembered that not far away, there is an abandoned stone forest. This place is only known to the ‘gu women’ and ‘witches’ in the nearby villages. It was very hidden and has special significance to the Miao family.”
“Did you see the oblique top of the tree on the right? I just realized that there is a piece of red rope tied to the branch.”
Gu Zhisang took a few glances in the direction Geliao Chan said. Sure enough, she saw faint red marks in the rustling trees: “What is that?”
“That’s the ‘fetal rope’, a magic spell unique to the Miao family.”
As the name suggests, it was a technique related to the fetus.
In the village of Miao Village, pregnant women generally don’t work and just lie down at home to raise their babies. However, there were many gravels in the mountains and forests, which were prone to landslides, and miscarriages were easy to happen if they fall or were hit.
For this reason, the experienced old ‘Gu women’ in the village will use the ’embodiment technique’ passed down from their ancestors to protect pregnant women from miscarriage.
Geliao Chan said: “I have seen my master send babies to others using this kind of red string.”
In her memory, the Miao girl who came to find her master was a very shy villager who was only more than a month pregnant at the time.
The master burned incense for this practice, burned the peach talisman and hemp thread that had been cut in advance to ashes, put a bowl of talisman water in a bowl, and let the pregnant Miao girl drink it.
Then she cut a piece of the red string in half and used the other half to wrap the medicine bag, which should contain peach leaves, talismans, and the like, to be worn by the pregnant woman. She can only take it away from her body except for bathing.
The other half of the red rope was used as a medium for embodying and was tied to the deposited object.
In Miao Village, the fetus in the womb can usually be delivered after the age of forty or fifty days.
The ‘Gu Po’, an old witch, will first rub the pregnant woman’s abdomen repeatedly with the palm of her hand, which was to extract the fetus’s soul, and then place it on a relatively stable object and tie it with a red string, such as a stone pillar, a house or a big tree superior.
Pregnant women with a stable fetal image can be transferred once. If the pregnant women were unstable and weak, they have to go to the “Gu Po” every two or three months until the fetus grows to 8 months in the womb. Then go to the “Gu Po” who sent the fetus to retrieve the soul fetus, and put the raised child back into the pregnant woman’s belly;
Otherwise, even if the fetus was full-term, it will not be born or will be born as stillbirth.
Geliao Chan looked at the red rope on the tip of the leaf and pursed her lips and said: “With this baby, the family members of the pregnant woman must not believe the ‘Gu Po’, and treated her unkindly, or the ‘Gu Po’ the pregnant woman found might be a bad-hearted and intentionally harm her. You look, the position of the red rope is on the branch, and it is not stable at all.”
“If a strong wind blow and the red string on the branch was blown away, the baby in the pregnant woman’s stomach will be unstable, causing the pregnant woman to be in pain day and night, and in the long run, it may cause miscarriage!”
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