If you want to go to Xingyuan, you must go to the Shu realm.

The Shu Road is known for its hardships and dangers, although it is close to crossing the lofty mountains, it is by no means easy, if it is not a particularly urgent matter, even the good hands in the army will not take this idea lightly. Lu Li and Shen Wansha are not very old, and they have no martial arts, but there is no shortage of silver, and time is not in a hurry, so they found a merchant ship, went around Shuzhong with the waterway, and turned to Xingyuan.

It's just that the waterway is slow, and the speed is not too fast, and the two of them walked all the way for February before they saw the boundary monument of Xingyuan in the distance.

In the warm spring of March, the sun is shining, the river scenery is beautiful, and even the air is full of flowers. Shen Wansha changed into a gold pattern pressed bottom early, and the group gold secretly embroidered a luxurious spring shirt, holding a fan with sandalwood as a bone and a fan painted with gold painting Immortal Pavilion Qionglou, swaying lightly, and his tone was very happy, "Fortunately, we don't get seasick." ”

Lu Li followed his line of sight to the bow of the boat, where a young man in a moon-white shirt was throwing up.

This ship is a merchant ship, with three floors, the owner of the ship is shrewd in trading, no matter how rich Shen Wansha is, he did not promise to charter out the whole ship, but rented it to different guests. Local tyrants such as Shen Wansha naturally live on the third floor with the most luxurious view and the best view, and the seasick young man is also very rich, and he also lives on the third floor, diagonally opposite them. According to Shen Wansha's lively temperament, he should have chatted with people a long time ago, but now, they don't know who the young man's surname is. And I'm dizzy.

The boat traveled for a month, and he vomited for a month, picking up the bow of the boat every day, the same posture, the same pale face, and the same two maids and four servants around his side.

Seeing that uncomfortable look, Lu Li and Shen Wansha felt the same way, "Yes...... Blame the guilty. ”

Zhao Zhu left for more than a month, and did not send a word back, Lu Li looked at his face calmly and seemed to have let go, but when he was alone, he always looked at the river and was stunned, like that...... I can't tell you how it feels, but in short, people who watch it are strangely sad.

"It's almost time, let's go downstairs and drink tea and wait for the last meal!" Shen Wansha didn't want him to be sad, so he never mentioned the word Brother Zhao, and chatted and played with him every day, doing everything possible to make food in the kitchen, and couldn't wait to feed him five times a day, especially wanting to feed him fat.

Lu Li understood Shen Wansha's good intentions, and stood up from the goodness, "Okay." "The young man at the bow of the boat can vomit eight times a day, and he looks very unappetizing. Fortunately, the small restaurant on the second floor is exquisite, and the view is opposite to the direction of the young man's vomit.

Although the merchant ship traveled to the Xingyuan boundary, the end point was still some distance from the destination of Lu Li and Shen Wansha, and they had to take a bamboo raft or a small boat to go around the mountains by the river to reach the largest wharf in Lizhou.

The bamboo raft floats in the river, which looks unsafe, but it is actually quite stable. What the men do is to send guests to and from the river, the bamboo raft is quite wide, and there are people standing at all four corners, if there are really guests who accidentally fall into the water, they can also rescue each other in time.

Shen Wansha felt that this thing was fresh, and enthusiastically asked yì to sit.

Lu Li was indispensable, so he relied on Shen Wansha.

This river seems to be a tributary of the Yangtze River, after the Shu land, there are fewer steep and strange peaks, and there are high cliffs along the river. The cliff is almost a straight line down into the river, the wall is smooth, there are no trees, no grass, but there are ...... Lots of coffins!

Leg-thick wood is wedged high on the cliff to support the whole coffin; There is a long hole shallow carved out of the cliff, just enough to place a coffin; There are also natural round caves with built-in coffins.

As soon as the bamboo raft turned around, the countless coffins on the wall were in full view, not dense, but shocking enough.

"What is this!" Shen Wansha was taken aback.

Lu Li was also shocked, "Probably...... Hanging coffin. ”

The ancient and mysterious funeral customs, mostly in Sichuan and Yunnan, the relics are preserved to the modern times where he lived, but the reason for the rise is still varied.

As a tyrant young master who likes to run out and yearns for the secret legend of good mountains and rivers, Shen Wansha also knows about hanging coffins, but he has never seen them with his own eyes, and he was startled when he suddenly saw it, and after relieving himself, his eyes have begun to be excited, "It turns out that this is the hanging coffin!" ”

He looked at the cliff that was so steep that he couldn't stand on it at all, "How the hell did you get there?" ”

There were not only the two of them on the bamboo raft, but there were also twenty men, women and children, most of whom were locals who often traveled back and forth, and no one made a fuss like Lu Li and Shen Wansha. The river was a little turbulent here, and they didn't have the kindness to help explain, so they took care of themselves, or their relatives and friends.

The bamboo raft shook so much that I didn't want to see the picturesque scenery, let alone the coffin hanging overhead.

Shen Wansha's curiosity was overcome, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while, so Lu Li pulled his arm tightly and the two of them leaned closely together to prevent him from falling into the water unsteadily.

On Lu Li's side was a middle-aged woman carrying a basket on her back, the basket was very small, covered with wool pads, and a layer of soft cloth on it, so she couldn't see what was inside, but the woman was very easy to carry, and it was not heavy.

The back basket was originally very quiet, but when the bamboo raft swayed, it also swayed, and then, the shaking amplitude was greater than that of the bamboo raft.

Lu Li watched quietly, the soft cloth slowly slid down, and a small head came out.

With a round head, soft hair, a wide forehead and big eyes, a small face and a ruddy mouth, she is a little doll!

The little doll popped up her head, looked around with her eyes, and saw that Lu Li was looking at him, stretched out her fat fingers against her lips, squeezed her eyebrows and made a 'shhh' look, and begged Lu Li not to sue.

How to look at how clever.

The doll was innocent, Lu Li smiled at him and didn't speak, but he kept an eye on him and watched him not to climb out.

The little doll looked at Jiang Jing curiously, slowly stood up, and looked out along the back basket. Looking at the joy, the small mouth is cocked, the little hand is patted, and the smile is cheerful.

The doll's voice was not loud, and it was drowned out by the sound of the water, and the woman's attention was probably on the turbulent river, not knowing that the little doll behind her was starting to be naughty.

The little doll was careful at first, but the more she played, the more daring she became, and she didn't pay attention to the slipping of her hand and fell into the back basket. I don't know if it hurts, he doesn't cry or make trouble, he stands up again after a moment, and looks at Lu Li at first glance.

Lu Li shook his head slightly, signaling that if he was not obedient, his uncle would sue.

The little doll nodded again and again, but it was only obedient for a while, and then she began to be restless again, and she was about to climb out of the basket.

At this time, the bamboo raft made a slightly sharp turn, and the little doll's hands were weak, and they were thrown out in an instant!

Lu Li hurriedly stretched out his hands to get the little doll back, but fortunately he had been watching it well, and the little doll was in danger.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but the little doll finally knew that she was afraid, and she cried.

The woman carrying him on her back felt that something was wrong when the bamboo raft turned, and she always knew what the weight behind her was, and if there was a change, the child had an accident!

turned around in horror, just in time to see Lu Li catching the child, the child still knew that he was afraid, and snapped away tears.

"Thank you for the rescue—" The woman was so frightened that her face turned pale.

Lu Li reached out and handed the doll over, "No." The river is turbulent, and the safety of children is important. ”

The woman hugged the child and coaxed it gently, a little ashamed, "He just fell asleep, and every time he slept for a long time, I thought he wouldn't wake up, so I was a little negligent......" She wanted to turn around and kneel down to thank her, "If it weren't for Childe-"

Lu Li hurriedly stopped the person, and in order to prevent the woman from blaming herself too much, she changed the topic, "This child has a straight forehead and a nose, and there is a look in his eyes, and he looks extremely smart, and smart children are tired." ”

"Isn't it!" After turning a corner, the river began to calm down, the woman didn't have to look at the water from time to time, and felt that the child was rescued and Lu Li was closer, so the conversation opened, "Don't look at him as only four years old, he has a very good memory, I see you today, even if it's just this side, it will be recognized when you see you again!" ”

"Oh? So smart? Lu Li was surprised.

"Isn't that so? The child was born prematurely, born the same size as a cat, and they all said that he couldn't raise it, and we raised it carefully, never dared to take it out, and he saw few people, but over time, we found that everyone he had seen would remember, and everyone in the village was dodger. ”

The woman was very proud of the child, "This time his father and mother are not there, I have something to do, so I have to take him out, I am afraid that he will be uncomfortable when he sees so many people for the first time, and he also covers the back basket with a soft cloth, who thinks he is so unreassuring." Isn't it, Fuwa-" The woman squeezed the belly of the doll, and the doll laughed out loud.

"Little oak, look at that coffin, it's actually in the middle of the cliff, so high, how did you get it!"

Shen Wansha was still excited.

Lu Li replied casually that she didn't know, and the woman smiled, "When outsiders come to us, the most curious thing is our funeral customs, which are actually nothing, but they have been cooked by our ancestors for generations. ”

Lu Li asked casually, "The funeral customs are so peculiar, but what is the reason?" ”

"The ancestors handed it down, I don't know why, there are many legends." The woman saw that Lu Li was interested in chatting and that the waterway was still long, so she chatted with him about various legends.

What will kill the old man enter the cave for 365 days, and he can become a teenager without touching the vulgar soil, and rejuvenate himself; What kind of blessed boy can ascend to immortality; What fairies marry mortals, auspicious clouds only fall on the cliffs, there are fairy bridges and so on and so on.

Shen Wansha raised his neck to look at the hanging coffin, and finally his neck was sore, his eyes were blurry, and he wanted to give up, but he didn't want to see that there seemed to be someone in a cave on the cliff.

The man was wearing a silver suit, and there seemed to be silver powder spreading in the light, and he couldn't see what he looked like from a distance, but he saw a small braid on his head, with silver beads falling, and a touch of bright blue in his ears, as if his ears were tied with rings.

But how do you look at that man, he is also a man, he wears so many braids, and he wears earrings!

Shen Wansha was amused, and wanted to immediately point it out to Lu Li to have fun with his friends, but the figure only flashed for a moment and disappeared, as if he was dazzled by a mistake.

Shen Wansha rubbed his eyes, quite sure that he was not mistaken. The man also gave him a strange sense of familiarity, he must have seen this person sometime and somewhere!

However, the disappearance of the figure of the person is considered to be dead without proof, Shen Wansha sighed and did not mention it to Lu Li.

The raft gradually stabilized, and approached the shore.

Suddenly, a burst of music was heard, and the sounds of erhu, suona, and cymbals walked into people's sight with the neat procession.

The line is very long, the people inside are wearing linen and filial piety, arms and black yarns, white sails are raised, paper money is scattered, this is a funeral procession. It's just that the aura of this funeral procession is very unusual, and there are mostly sturdy men in it, who don't hear crying, and there is no sound except mourning.

The direction of the procession is the bottom of the cliff where the coffins are all over the place.

"It's ...... Funeral? Lu Li subconsciously asked, "Want to send it to the cliff?" ”

The woman replied, "Exactly." ”

"Why didn't anyone cry?"

"Our people here, after death will be carried into the ancestral shrine, three years after the coffin can be hung into the burial, when the death is sad, three years after the grief is less, sending the deceased to heaven is a great thing, should be solemn and cautious, at this time will cry, about only relatives." Although the woman replied, her eyes were a little evasive when she looked at the funeral procession.

Lu Li didn't pay attention, and his eyes were at the front of the line.

The first was a very well-built woman with a child in her arms. The child looked like he was only two years old, and his back was very attached to the woman, looking like a mother and child. The mother and son were dressed in heavy filial piety, and the mother wiped her eyes from time to time, as if she was crying, the child didn't understand, but she didn't dare to cry with a small face, and she held a black lacquer tablet tightly in her arms.

Looking at the position of these two people, could it be the wife of the deceased?

Shen Wansha also saw the long funeral procession and asked curiously, "Who is this who died?" ”

The woman no longer answered, as if she was still a little flustered, "I have arrived at the shore, please don't blame the little woman for being rude, it is really that the child was frightened when he came back to the first time, and he had to go back as much as possible in case there was any illness." The little woman's husband's surname is Deng, and he lives in Dengjia Village, which is five miles to the east. ”

After speaking, he left without waiting for Lu Li's answer, and his gait was a little flustered.

Shen Wansha was puzzled, "I just asked for the name of a dead person, what did she do so fast?" ”

Lu Li looked at the long funeral procession, his eyebrows frowned slightly, "It's probably the name of this dead man...... It's not simple. ”

Shen Wansha sighed lightly, "Regardless of her, let's hurry ashore, I seem to have seen the person who picked us up." "Tricksters

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Chapter 79: The Hanging Coffin