Temperament

Two days later, the boat finally arrived at the boundary of Miaojiang and rested on the bank of the river. Zhuo Tianyi ordered people to unload the horses and horses from the accompanying cargo ship and go by land instead.

This time, only the groom and a dozen servants were brought along, and the rest of the servants and boatmen were left on board to wait for their return journey.

The land route was much faster, but within two or three days, we arrived at the gate of Dazhai Mountain, where the No. 16 Black Miao King of Miaojiang, Long Jiu, lived.Long Jiu got the news that Zhuo Tianyi and his party were coming, and sent many people along the way to meet them, and they were very courteous.

When Zhuo Tianyi and his party arrived at the gate of the mountain, there was a chorus of voices and drums and music.A welcome team of hundreds of people surrounded the open space in front of Dazhai Gate. Both men and women were dressed in festive costumes. The men wore headkerchiefs and played drums or sheng, while the women wore silver jewelry on their heads and necks. Singing and dancing, it was very lively.

Miao Wang Longjiu and a young woman with colorful makeup stood among a group of guards with machetes, looking up and down.The woman was about twenty years old, with a slender figure wrapped in a short pleated skirt, and her face was as bright as a cloud against the backdrop of silver ornaments all over her head.

Zhuo Tianyi and the others got off the horse, and the woman looked over to this side, scanned twice, and then fixed her gaze on Zhuo Tianyi.

Gu Qingyang walked to Zhuo Tianyi's side, looked at the dark crowd at the foot of the mountain, and said meaningfully: "Tianyi, this Miao King is getting more and more polite, this time he came down the mountain in person. I remember, five years When the former second senior brother took us there, he only greeted us at the gate of the village."

Zhuo Tianyi laughed, and took a look at Gu Qingyang, "That's because you, the world-renowned Merry Sword, were present, Uncle Ninth Master."

He walked to Shen Qinglan's carriage, lifted the curtain and helped him get out of the carriage.

Gu Qingyang chuckled behind him, looking like he was enjoying the show.Zhou Yunlei glanced at the crowd at the foot of the mountain, then at Zhuo Tianyi holding Shen Qinglan's hand, and sighed secretly.

As soon as Shen Qinglan got out of the car door, she saw a group of colorful people in front of her, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes. "Miao people are hospitable, and it's the Dagu Tibetan Festival, so there are more people to welcome them." Zhuo Tianyi wrapped his arms around his waist, explained in his ear, and carried him directly out of the car.

Shen Qinglan gave a thoughtful "hmm", and after getting out of the car, pushed away the hand he was holding, "I'll go by myself."

"The mountain road is steep and narrow, I'm afraid you will fall." Zhuo Tianyi worriedly pointed to the path paved with bluestone slabs that was more than one foot wide.

Shen Qinglan raised her face and glanced at him silently, Zhuo Tianyi followed the good advice, "You should be more careful when you go out as a guest." He smiled gently at him, "Then you walk by my side, so that I can protect you at any time."

In a few words, the Miao Village was described as being like a dragon's pool and a tiger's den, Gu Qingyang beside him couldn't help laughing out loud, Zheng Shuming and Zhang Mingyuan couldn't stop laughing too.

Zhuo Tianyi acted as if he didn't hear it, and walked ahead while protecting Shen Qinglan.Even if Shen Qinglan wanted to avoid it, she could only let him go.

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After that day of love at the water's edge, Zhuo Tianyi became like this. He no longer harassed or deliberately beat the side drums to exaggerate the atmosphere, but turned all these into facts on the surface. To show off his abilities to the fullest, he can't wait to announce it to the world.

Shen Qinglan couldn't think about it.The initiative and indulgence of that day are the most tortuous and unknown secrets deep in my heart, and maybe it is impossible to tell the second person to know in my whole life.What Zhuo Tianyi did at this time may be really wrong, or it may be an excuse to continue to push forward, but no matter what, it will not change his purpose and action.

Facing this aggressive offensive like the torrents back then, he was exhausted physically and mentally.Maybe the things you are facing now can bring you a turning point.

Shen Qinglan glanced at the beautifully made-up woman surrounded by the crowd in front of her, exhaled, and resisted the urge to push away the hand that was often on her shoulder and waist, and followed him, walking towards the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, the sound of drums became louder. As the guests approached, the dancing men and women slowly separated into two groups, making way for the guests to come to Miao Wang Longjiu and the young woman.

Long Jiumo was about 40 years old, with a white handkerchief on his head and a golden knife on his waist, and walked forward to greet him with a smile.He is a person of Zhuo Xiaocang's generation, this time condescending to greet him first, Zhuo Tianyi naturally would not lose this courtesy, walked a few steps, bowed his hands, "Tianyi has seen King Miao."

Long Jiu said a few "good" words, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and I look more and more like your father!" He patted his shoulders vigorously with both hands, "It's too unfamiliar to call me King Miao, call me Uncle Long .”

Zhuo Tianyi immediately changed his words, "Uncle Long."

Long Jiu responded loudly, turned around and smiled at the young woman behind, "Jiuling, why don't you serve the wine soon?"

The woman named Jiuling behind her responded crisply, took an ox horn from the wine table on the side, asked the servants to fill it up, and then put both hands in front of Zhuo Tianyi, "Please!"

Zhuo Tianyi took the horn and drank the whole horn's wine under her fiery eyes, "Thank you!" Jiu Ling took the empty horn in his hand and smiled brightly, "Zhuo Tianyi, I haven't seen you for five years. Nothing has changed!"

With a warm and flamboyant tone, Zhuo Tianyi smiled faintly, "Miss Jiuling must have misremembered, there is no reason why someone hasn't changed for five years, I almost don't know the girl anymore."

As soon as these words came out, Gu Qingyang laughed softly, and said casually: "Then it must be that Jiuling girl has become so beautiful in the past five years, it is reasonable for Tianyi not to recognize her."

The smile on Jiu Ling's face became even brighter, and after calling "Uncle Gu", he turned to greet the rest of the Miao girls, "Sisters, all the guests from afar will respect the beautiful bar of the Miao family!"

After a greeting like a silver bell, seven or eight well-dressed Miao girls each filled up the horns in their hands and sent them to Shen Qinglan and the rest.

The wine in the ox horn was as much as three cups in an ordinary cup. Zhuo Tianyi took the ox horn after Shen Qinglan took two sips, drank it with his neck up, and handed it back to the woman. Long Jiu and Jiu Ling of the wine said, "My brother Qing Lan is too strong to drink, so I will replace all his wine."

As soon as Gu Qingyang handed back the empty horns to the toasting Miao girl, Zhuo Tianyi said: "Miss Jiuling, it's rare that Master Jiu can recognize you at first sight after all these years. This kind of affection is very rare. Should the girl respect the role of Uncle Ninth more?"

"That's right!" Jiu Ling showed no sign of coyness, turned around and asked a servant to pour a dime full of wine, and handed it to Gu Qingyang, "Jiu Ling thanked Mr. Gu!"

Is there any reason to refuse the fine wine offered by a beauty?Gu Qingyang thanked him, took the horn and drank it up.

Zhuo Tianyi took revenge, and smiled triumphantly at Gu Qingyang. Gu Qingyang gave him a wink at Shen Qinglan, and then put on a gloating expression.Seeing that the two of them were fighting openly and secretly again like when they were children, Zhou Yunlei turned his eyes away from behind them with a headache, and landed on the silent Shen Qinglan, and then moved away again.

Miao Wang Longjiu patted Zhuo Tianyi's shoulder, stretched out his hand and pointed forward, "Go, go up the mountain, the banquet has been set, someone will take you to the guest house to rest after dinner, and come to the village to watch the sacrificial ceremony and eat Guzang at night!"

"Thank you, Uncle Long." Zhuo Tianyi replied with a smile, turned around and pulled Shen Qinglan's arm, letting him follow him.

A group of people walked and talked, and after about half an hour, they arrived at the gate of Dazhai, which is located halfway up the mountain.After entering the stockade, Long Jiu and Jiu Ling sent them to the big house in the center of the stockade, went to the temple to work on the Guzang sacrifice at night, and sent a few capable men in the stockade to greet everyone.

After lunch in the big house, someone took them to a stilted building not far from the big house for entertaining guests to rest.

The building on stilts was built on the hillside, and it was all made of solid wood. The ground floor was for the servants, and the second and third floors were for the guests. A group of more than a dozen people, except for the women and children, each had a room.Shen Qinglan was naturally arranged by Zhuo Tianyi to be next door to her just like the first time she went to Luoying Villa.

The room is not big, the tables, chairs, cabinets and desk furnishings are all Miao style. There is a corridor outside the room. When the door of the corridor is opened, a gust of wind with the mist and dampness of the mountains blows in, blowing on the face The feeling of being cold also brings with it the memory of a long time ago.

Shen Qinglan paused at the door, and walked to the corridor, her eyes were immediately attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of her.Downstairs are a few green fields that look like jasper, and several trails meander along the edge of the field, dividing the jasper into several scattered high and low pieces.

On the other side of the field is the steeply descending hillside. Beyond the hillside is the distant mountain with misty clouds and mist. The green is hidden in the gray and white, and only a few blue and black colors are quietly exposed, just like the white space in the ink painting.

There is a beautiful woman leaning on the corridor, and Shen Qinglan sat on it sideways and looked at the distant mountains for a long time. In his memory, some pictures from long ago appeared one after another, ethereal, just like the clouds and mists covering the undulating mountains at this moment, distant and not clear.

With hands on his shoulders, "What are you looking at?" Zhuo Tianyi sat down beside him, with his arms around his shoulders, breathing in his ears.

"Nothing." Shen Qinglan turned to the beginning.The layout of the rooms here is the same. There is such a corridor outside each room. Two people sit on the leaning beauties, and the people in the next room can see their actions without turning their heads.

Zhuo Tianyi patted him on the shoulder, "Go to sleep for a while, the evening ceremony will end very late."

Shen Qinglan didn't answer, paused, and asked back: "When do you plan to go to choose the medicinal materials?"

"Tomorrow." Zhuo Tianyi took his hand and held it into his palm, "No hurry, just going through the motions, Long Jiu is quite a kind person, and he has been on good terms with the Zhuo family for so many years. The price is also fair.”

"En." Shen Qinglan responded, intending to push him away, but recalling the conversation between Zhu Yun and Ju Qing that she heard in Zhuo Mansion's flower hall, she gave up, anyway, it was only during this period of time.

He turned his head to look at the illusory distant mountains outside the fence, and remembered that many years ago, he seemed to have leaned on the fence and stared like this. The difference was that at that time, what he yearned for was the world of mortals outside the mountains, but now, what he gazed at was memories The years in the mountains are already faint.

The author has something to say: finally arrived at the Miao Village, Shen Mi and Mr. Zhuo live in separate rooms.There will be no meat and vegetables for the next few days.

In fact, I like the appearance of Diaojiaolou very much, although I have never lived in it.