lanterns illuminate rivers and mountains

This Miao village has already penetrated into the eastern part of Yunnan and entered the hinterland of Shiwan Dashan.Because it is inaccessible and almost isolated from the outside world, the natural landscape of the ancient Miao Village has been completely preserved.

Ye Zhen was sitting in the sedan chair, fed up with all kinds of meat and vegetables, lying on Long Jiwei's body and moaning: "Mom! I see so many stars..."

Long Jiwei said: "There is no way, tradition. You are their guest, they will not let you walk up the mountain with your feet, you must be carried by eight young men on bamboo sedan chairs, and eight Miao girls Feige will toast you completely. Get drunk and put it in."

Ye Zhen turned his head and vomited wildly, Long Jiwei patted him on the back, and said calmly: "You smell like a piece of wine lees, drink a few more cups and you will not rot."

Ye Zhen: "..."

Ye Zhen walked into the Miao Village with staring eyes, and saw a blue-gray big stone brick road facing him, with stilted buildings and beauties on both sides.Miao boys with hair buns and bright cloth clothes lined up playing reed pipes and awn tubes, while Miao girls in ethnic dresses and silver jewelry sat on the beauties and embroidered, laughing and pointing at bamboo sedan chairs from time to time.

Ye Zhen was so drunk that everything he saw was novel, while Long Jiwei looked at the stilted buildings on both sides of the road, with nostalgia in his eyes that was hard to detect.

The sedan chair moved quickly, and after the reeds were played, they just arrived at a four-in-one building at the end of the road.The building is in a ring shape, surrounding the grand main building, with two stilted buildings on both sides, with eaves facing the sky, carved dragons and painted phoenixes, and the doorposts are made of mulberry wood soaked in tung oil, which is solemn and heavy.

The sedan chair passed directly through the main entrance, while the Miao people who greeted and sent them off stayed outside the gate, as if they were in awe.Suddenly, the young man who was leading the sedan chair shouted loudly, not knowing what he meant, and the sedan chair landed in front of the main house's gate.

Ye Zhen climbed out of the sedan chair top-heavy, only to see Long Jiwei's feet landed on the ground, and the Miao man who was carrying the sedan chair bent down to salute him at the same time.

"...Mom, can you enjoy yourself here?"

Long Jiwei was expressionless, and whispered in Chinese: "I can't eat it. Don't mention Xuanlin when we meet people, the old people here are very jealous of him."

"Why?! Because he pushes you back and forth every night... Ouch!"

Ye Zhen held his head with tears in his eyes, and said aggrievedly: "Uncle Xuanlin taught you this!"

Long Jiwei said angrily: "You learn what he teaches you? Then he doesn't eat to save food for the country. Why do you have to eat grilled lobster every day?"

During the conversation, the Miao boys who carried the sedan chair had already retreated respectfully. Long Jiwei pulled Ye Zhen, and the two of them crossed the high threshold together.

I saw that the lobby of the main house seemed to be shrouded in a perennial fragrance, and the light reflected from the tall screen windows made the lobby even darker and more humid.I don't know if it's an illusion, but the temperature here seems to be much lower than outside. Ye Zhen was sweating from drinking, but when he came in, he shivered.

Long Jiwei left him at the door and took a step forward, half blocking Ye Zhen's sight.

There was a heavy figure on the first seat of the lobby, who seemed to be very old, and it took a long time to stand up tremblingly, his bent body was like a bent shrimp.

Ye Zhen stared curiously, and suddenly heard the old man yell in Miao language!The voice was so loud and majestic that Ye Zhen almost staggered in fright.

However, Long Jiwei was mentally prepared, and answered a few words directly to the old man, and his voice was calm.

The old man became even angrier, chattering a lot, before he finished, he was interrupted by Long Jiwei's simple and neat word.Judging from the brief pronunciation of the word and the gloomy expression on the old man's face, Ye Zhen suspected that what Long Jiwei said was probably "Shut up!"...

Long Jiwei no longer cared about the old man's face, turned around and pulled Ye Zhen outside.

However, as soon as he took a step, he only heard the sound of wind in his ears!The speed was so fast that Ye Zhen didn't even realize it, but the door was slowly pulled by an invisible force, and then "squeaked—" closed.

"Stop!" The old man unexpectedly said something in Chinese. Although he had a thick accent and his tone was as rough as if it had been polished on sandpaper, Ye Zhen understood it.

Long Jiwei stopped in his tracks, only to hear the old man say angrily behind him: "——you and that monster left the village, and once you left the village, it was a sixty-year-old. Now you bring back a Han child, and then you want to leave again?"

Ye Zhen was terrified and couldn't help but peek at Long Jiwei's face.

Long Jiwei took a deep breath, turned to look directly at the old man, pointed at Ye Zhen and said, "This child's parents were killed by aliens, his home was burned, and the city was slaughtered. Now he wants to avenge the enemy, but he is not strong enough, so he wants to take revenge on us." The people of his family rely on their strength. His hometown of 2 people is now a handful of sand, shouldn't we help him?"

The old man said angrily: "First for a monster, and then for Han children, what do you think of our Miao Village?"

Ye Zhen subconsciously pulled Long Jiwei's sleeve: "Mom, let's go..."

Who knew that the old man heard it, he slapped the armrest of the chair heavily, and pointed his thin and slender index finger at Long Jiwei: "——Don't go!"

In an instant, there seemed to be an invisible silver thread reaching Long Jiwei in his hand.However, at the very moment, Long Jiwei's trench coat suddenly trembled violently, and a black snake-like animal poked its head out and opened its mouth to howl—although there was no sound at all, but for some reason, Ye Zhen was in extreme astonishment. I can feel that it was a rather violent and shocking long howl!

The invisible sound waves surged and vibrated rapidly, and as soon as the silver wire touched it, it disappeared without even the slightest resistance.

Long Jiwei and the old man shouted in Miao language at the same time—Long Jiwei yelled at the snake that came out from under his clothes, while the old man's face turned blue and his hands trembled, as if he saw a monster.

Perhaps seeing the old man's more frightened appearance, Ye Zhen calmed down instead, and even had the mood to take a closer look at the monster.It has long horns on its head, black body, and scales the size of a fingernail. There are only two thin slits in the eyes, as if the eyes of a mammal are half-closed.

It didn't look like a snake that way, but it looked like a miniature dragon.

Being reprimanded, the dragon grinned unhappily, then wriggled around Long Jiwei's neck, and lazily slipped back into his lapel.

The old man's expression was mixed with rage, panic, and bewilderment. After a while, he asked in a trembling voice, "What are you bringing it for? Destroy our entire village?"

"No," Long Jiwei whispered, "It's just that I haven't been separated from it since many years ago."

The old man sat down and stood up, sat down and stood up again. After a long time of panic, he finally slapped the armrest and said bitterly: "Although our village is not prosperous, it has been passed down intermittently for thousands of years. For disciples..."

"You don't need to accept Han people as apprentices, you teach him for a year, and after a year I will naturally come and take him home."

"Your home is in the stockade!"

"Yes, so after I die, I must be buried in the territory of the Miao people."

Finally, the old man had nothing to do with Long Jiwei. He cursed for a long time in Miao language, and finally waved his hand unwillingly, calling for someone to come in and take them to rest.

Ye Zhen was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes, his head hurt, and he was hungry. When he took them to dinner, he immediately grabbed Long Jiwei, eager to leave.

Just as Long Jiwei turned around, the old man suddenly yelled in Miao language: "Wait!"

He stood still, but didn't look back, only hearing the old man's voice hoarse and weak, clearly showing fear: "—that monster..."

"It's part of my being."

The lobby became quiet, as if even the tiny flying dust floating in the sunlight had frozen.

Long Jiwei took Ye Zhen's hand and strode across the high threshold.

After all, the Miao people are hospitable, and they specially vacated a clean and spacious "official room" to receive them.

Long Jiwei has a high status, no one dares to make trouble in front of him, but the handsome and delicious Ye Shisan is not so lucky.After being pinched on the face by the laughing Miao girl who came to deliver the food for the eighth time, little classmate Ye Shisan's reflexes comparable to dinosaurs finally came to his senses: "Huh? Someone seems to be molesting me?"

Long Jiwei lazily leaned against the railing where the beauty was leaning on, and said: "Then you have to be careful, if any Miao girl takes a fancy to you and lays a spell on you, you will never even think about walking out of the cottage for the rest of your life." , prepare to serve the whole family as a cow and a horse..."

Ye Zhen immediately shrank his body to the bed, terrified: "I feel so dizzy, have I been bewitched?!"

Long Jiwei smiled and blinked, the clothes on his chest fluttered slightly, and the old dragon poked his head out with his teeth and claws open, and opened his mouth wide open to Ye Zhen.

It was quite arrogant like that, Ye Zhen immediately became angry: "Nimma, does this snake seem to be laughing?"

Old Dragon: "..."

Ye Zhen was immediately humiliated: "Is it laughing? Is this snake laughing at me? Damn, why do I suddenly want to whip it with the sole of my shoe?!"

Old Dragon: "..."

The old dragon screamed wildly and jumped forward desperately. Long Jiwei grabbed its head forcefully: "Little classmate Ye Shisan! You just called it a snake? Hurry up and apologize, you are really screwed this time..."

Ye Zhen leaned out from the bed, extended his arms and patted the old dragon's head, wondering, "Isn't it a snake?"

The old dragon immediately turned his head and tail, held his head high, and howled angrily.

"..." Ye Zhen pondered for a long time, and finally his eyes lit up: "Is it an earthworm?"

The old dragon rushed out in an instant, aimed at Ye Shisan's head and slapped Ye Shisan's head fiercely, and directly knocked out Ye Shisan, who was drinking too much, and passed out.