37 Clothed mounds
Smoot is famous for its 'Three Beauties'.
First, beauty is a rare wonder in the world. The country of Smoot has little temperature change, warm winters and cool summers, peculiar landscapes, and diverse climates. The place where the mountains and rivers are intertwined, the giant peaks stand up, the towering sky; three miles meet the pool, ten miles to see the waterfall, between the peaks and waterfalls there is also a canyon, a hundred flowers bloom in the valley, the warbler and the bird sings.
Two beauty, beauty in the village. The Smoot people are a large group and live in groups. There are also differences in customs between different villages, but all kinds of bamboo houses, stone walls, and tile houses are diverse in form, and the colors are bright and colorful, and they fall on the vast green sea, just like the colored beads falling on the green silk cloth.
Three beauties, in the 'jewel beauty'. This 'pearl beauty' refers to the white skin and beautiful jade of Smoot, and also refers to the beautiful jade as the skin of a young girl - girl jade.
These 'three beauties' are the foundation for the development of tourism in Smoot, and they are also their greatest treasure.
Xiang Mu stepped on his homeland, took a deep breath, and felt the sweetness of the air.
In order to protect the balance between ecology and nature, apart from basic communication equipment and national defense, there are no mechanical products in Smoot in the country. The people rely on horse-drawn carriages and wooden boats for travel, and tourist specialties and daily necessities are also made of flowers and trees in nature. This is why Xiang Mu can't adapt to airplanes and won't use too complicated machines.
Anyone who travels to Smoot is subjected to a rigorous body search, and any plastic and modern consumables are registered at the entrance to form a file. At the end of the tour, they will be inspected, and if they have items that are different from when they came, they will be subject to heavy penalties and a permanent ban from entering the country of Smoot.
After Xiang Mu registered the items on his body, he successfully entered the country.
He rode to the bird camp and blew a sharp whistle with two fingers. After a while, a huge whalehead stork fluttered its huge wings and landed in front of Xiang Mu.
The whalehead stork is three meters tall and can reach seven or eight meters with its wings extended. This is Xiang Mu's mount. Before he left the country, he placed the storks in this 'bird camp'.
Xiang Mu Teng crossed the Qi and stood firmly at the junction of the neck and back of the whale head stork. Blowing again, the whale-headed stork spread its wings and soared into the sky. Xiang Mu stood on the back of the bird, his sleeves fluttering, staring at the forest trees below, and he also gave birth to a bit of an immortal.
He still prefers this kind of chic and wanton breeze blowing in his face, which is more tangible than on the plane.
"It's here. ”
The stork made its way through the forest rain, skimmed over the peak, and circled slightly over a crack in the sky. Then, like a bullet, it suddenly fell and disappeared into the crack.
The cliffs on both sides of the river are getting closer and closer, and the light around them is getting weaker and weaker. On a protruding rock mass, the two rested.
"Good boy. Xiang Mu stroked the feathers of the whale stork, took out a piece of beef jerky and fed it to its mouth, and let it fly out of the cliff first.
The road below is too narrow for the whalehead stork to fly. With both hands and feet, Xiang Mu climbed to the bottom of the cliff along the gap in the cliff.
Looking up from the bottom of the cliff, the sky turned into a thin silver line, and the occasional gust of wind blew by, whining.
Slowly groping along the bottom of the cliff, a natural karst cave appeared in sight. Above the cave, there are three big characters engraved with 'Overlord Temple'.
I saw Xiang Mu using his feet as a broom, sweeping away the dust in front of the cave entrance, lifting his robe, and kneeling abruptly. He clasped his hands together between his eyebrows, bowed deeply to the ground, and bowed three times.
'Father, mother, everyone, Xiang Mu is back!'
Walk into the cave and pull the mechanism inside, and the cave will be lit up by candles. The criss-cross dissolvatory tunnels, such as bamboo shoots and curtains, various lava rocks of different colors, and the pond water in between, are like a fairyland.
Following the memories of his youth, Xiang Mu walked into one of the melt passages, bypassed more than a dozen bends, and came to the center of the cave.
There are about 30,000 square meters of armor here, and the huge space is hung with different types of armor, including jade, black iron, leather, vines, and even armor made of animal teeth, which is dazzling.
In front of each armor was a stone tablet with the name of the owner of the armor.
This is the 'clothed mound' that the Chu family has passed down from generation to generation.
The Chu family's 'clothed mound' is the foundation of life, and it is the tomb of the corpse of the Chu clan who was afraid that there would be no burial after death, and replaced it with clothes. So I chose the cave, this kind of hidden and aura-like place.
Xiang Mu passed through various forms of armor and came to a corner.
It was a set of emerald green armor made of the scales of a hard demonic beast, with snake tendons interspersed between the armor pieces and a helmet embellished with red tassels. If you look closely into the armor from inside the helmet, you will see that the pink and blue silk brocade dress worn by the woman is neatly stacked inside, and there is a bundle of hair tied with red thread on it.
This is the 'husband and wife mound' of Xiang Mu's parents.
took out the peach blossom wine on his waist, Xiang Mu poured the wine on the stone tablet, knelt on the ground and bowed, he kowtowed three times, each heavier than the other. When I looked up, I actually broke my forehead, and a trace of blood crossed my face and soaked the corners of my clothes.
Xiang Mu's face was unharmed, but the sadness in his eyes was like a piercing iceberg, which could not be melted.
Five years have passed since the rebellion and the child fled the country. Now, the child is 18 years old, and according to the customs of the Chu family, it should be a 'crown ceremony' in the family temple. Only now, there is no temple to work, and no one wears a crown......
Xiang Mu got up, bowed deeply to the armor, and turned to leave.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of talking at the entrance of the cave, and it reached Xiang Mu's ears along the breeze in the cave.
'Someone!'
Sensing the movement, Xiang Mu immediately started the 'stop', closed the essence hole and qi all over his body, and hid in the dark to observe.
About five or six men came in through the doorway, all dressed in black, with their steps light and silent, and their postures crisp and clean. At first glance, he is a good hand at practicing martial arts.
I saw that one of the leaders took off his mask, revealing a face as pale as paper - a pair of narrow eagle eyes glowed with cold light, a lifelike dragon head tattoo appeared on the tall hooked nose and thin cheeks like a knife, and the green dragon only showed one corner, and the rest was hidden under the man's clothes. This tattoo is very weird, and it makes him exude an eerie aura.
Cook twisted his nose and sniffed lightly, as if he had noticed something unusual: "It seems to smell of wine?"
He slowly walked to the stone tablet in search of the aroma of wine. Looking at the wine stains on the ground, he stretched out his finger and wiped it with a noticeable wetness: 'It looks like it's still around here!'
Touching the name on the stone tablet, he suddenly raised his head and laughed, a little crazy: "Chu Xiangyan! Heaven will not be in vain to me! Your father and son owe me, let your son repay it!"
He turned his head to the people who were traveling with him and whispered: "Chase, chase me, die to see people, live to see corpses!"
With an order, the six people immediately scattered in all directions, chasing Xiang Mu's figure.
After the barrier formed by the lava of Xiangmu, he looked at the man in front of him. His eyes widened, his fists clenched, and he even pinched blood: 'It's him!
When he was young, he hid in the water tank of pickles, and what he saw was this pair of eagle eyes and noses, as well as the dragon head tattoo that he couldn't forget!
'It's Selica!'
The hatred and anger that surged into his heart almost swallowed him, and the dragon head tattoo on the man's face seemed to instantly pull him back to the bloody night......
The excitement almost made him almost unable to stabilize his physical state, and for a moment he disappeared and showed a murderous aura.
'There!'
But in a snap of his fingers, Cook grabbed the direction of the murderous aura, and he cast his gaze at Xiang Mu's hiding place, as if he had firmly grasped him: "Little mouse, I found you......"
The oncoming strange murderous aura was like a silver needle piercing a balloon, making Xiang Mu unload his breath and calm down instantly: 'It's exposed!'
He steadied his breathing, re-lifted the 'stop' and immediately escaped into the dissolution tunnel behind him.
Of course, Cook would not give him a chance to escape, and he chased after him, following him along with the faint smell of wine and blood on Xiang Mu's body.
There are more than 100 karst passages in the cave, which divide and diverge. There are more than a dozen caves that lead to these tunnels, and if you are not very familiar with the terrain here, it is easy to get lost in the caves.
Xiang Mu walked forward while recalling, he walked through more than a dozen forks, but he still did not shake off the pursuers. I was puzzled, and when I touched my forehead, I realized the reason: 'I was careless! I didn't expect him to be able to smell such a little smell!'
Wiping the blood stains with his sleeve, Xiang Mu suddenly turned around and walked towards another cave without hesitation.
Cook continued to walk after Xiang Mu, and they were getting closer and closer. Just when he thought he was about to catch up, another huge cave appeared in front of the six people.
'What about people?'
I looked around, but I didn't see anyone.
"Boss, there's Tan there!"
"What?"
Looking at the icy waterhole and the water stains on Tan's side, Cook secretly said that something was not good!
On the side, Xiang Mu hid under the water of the pool and listened carefully to the movement above the water, and only after the six of them had walked away did he surface.
This little trick can't trap Cook for long, he must get out as soon as possible!
Roughly shaking off the water stains on his body, Xiang Mu re-entered the dissolution channel in the original direction.
Cook and his party followed the traces to the end, and found that no one knew that they had been put on a set, and he darkened his eyes, and a wave of anger arose in his heart.
'Boy, dare you fool me!'
The six reversed course and resumed the track.
In order to escape tracking, Xiang Mu kept circling in the cave, so much so that he was dizzy. Now he doesn't know where he is.
As he walked, he came to a shallow stream, and the water was flowing from east to west, and he thought that he might find an outlet in the direction of the current, so he walked along the shore.
After an unsuccessful search in the cave, Cook stopped. Suddenly, there was a violent vibration on the ground, and even the stone cone on the roof of the cave shook down!
Feeling the source of the tremors, Cook panicked and immediately became anxious, and he ordered his accomplices to follow closely and rush to the depths of the cave.
'Stinky boy, is that your target?'
'Don't be delusional, it's mine! No one wants it but me!'
With a roar in his heart, the six of them disappeared into the depths of the cave......