That night, Wenqu County held a banquet to entertain Chen Guan and his party.

Two years ago, Chen Xuezhi was still a difficult household in Wulongyu Village who could not pay the electricity bill and the retention money, but now he can drive back and use a computer, and he still has the title of chairman of the powerful Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd. on his head.

There is no way, his son has become the deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department and the director of the Gudu City Public Security Bureau, and Chen Xuezhi's confidence is naturally strong!

No, Chen Xuezhi sat in the guest of honor position decently, although he basically didn't talk much, but when Vice Mayor Song Boren who was sitting in the main seat occasionally asked him, he could answer a few words without humility or arrogance.

No, as soon as he sat down, Vice Mayor Song Boren asked Chen Xuezhi, how much Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd. has registered itself?

Chen Xuezhi replied that the registered capital was not much at the beginning, but now Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd. owns gold mines, concentrators, and also participates in a large real estate company in Beijing and a well-known listed company in Guangdong. He and his wife are also major shareholders of the famous Wulongyu Tourism Development Co., Ltd., and his wife Zheng Yulian is the chairman of Wulongyu Tourism Development Co., Ltd. and a partner of Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd.

These words are all true, without the slightest bragging, let Chen Xuezhi, an honest man, say it honestly, and listen to the ears of Song Boren, Su Minghua, Chu Moushan, Tong Ming and others, that is, you have met a big investor!

The enthusiasm of Song Boren, Su Minghua, Chu Moushan, Tong Ming and others was mobilized at once, and Song Boren, who usually doesn't drink much, took the initiative as soon as he came up, and began to greet guests to drink according to Longnan customs.

Longnan people drink alcohol, which is different from the Central Plains people's drinking. When people in the Central Plains drink, they first touch three wines, call the wine to pass three rounds, and then the main family respects the guests, one by one, and calls it to pass the customs or pass the circle. Longnan people drink differently, there is no wine over the three rounds of the saying, come up to say toast, and not one by one toast, is to pour good wine for the guests, drink directly.

In some places in Longnan, when drinking, they all drink while singing, and drink a glass and sing a tune.

Song Boren invited Chen Guan and his entourage to dinner, it was impossible to sing while drinking, drinking and singing a song, like toasting in the countryside of Longnan, but it was also a glass of toast, using one or two sized wine glasses, Song Boren said to toast a cup, that is, he and Chen Guan and others had a drink together.

Song Boren was respected, and it was Song Minghuajing, secretary of the county party committee. Followed by the county magistrate Chu Moushan, the deputy county magistrate Tong Ming, and the senior engineers of the Longnan City Geology and Mining Bureau, the Wenqu County Geology and Mining Bureau, and the 14th Gold Detachment of the Armed Police took turns to toast.

Guo Yun is a girl's family, she doesn't drink a drop of alcohol, and she doesn't drink alcohol from the beginning.

Chen Xuezhi couldn't drink enough, and after only drinking two glasses, he was dizzy and distended, and he didn't drink anymore.

Jiao Tiande is old, and he drank three cups, but he didn't drink anymore.

Only Guo Zhanshan and Chen Guan, who have a good amount of wine, are insisting.

As soon as the leaders of Longnan finished saluting, Chen Guan thought that it was their turn to toast, but he didn't expect a pair of people wearing white horse Tibetan costumes to walk in, two young people in front, a man and a woman, and a few musicians holding musical instruments in the back.

Needless to say, this is according to the Baima Tibetan customs, to sing toasts and toast!

Chen Guan saw that this Tibetan guy from the white horse was wearing a white linen gown, a woolen belt around his waist, a sheepskin coat on his upper body, a green cloth cloth on his head, and his feet on his feet were in his shoes, looking handsome and spirited.

The Tibetan girl on the white horse, with a silk handkerchief wrapped around her head, a silk handkerchief tightly wrapped in a long braid, a red head rope strung with nine semicircular fish bones, and four-colored jade beads, tied on her head and hung to her right ear; The upper body is covered with flowers and shoulders, and six square-shaped fishes are worn on the chest; He wore a three-color apron on the outside of his body, a red belt woven of wool thread around his waist, and embroidered pointed shoes. Coupled with the gently swaying two-ring pendants, rings, and bracelets, it looks both dignified and simple, beautiful and generous, and has a mysterious and quiet beauty.

Guo Yun had already left her seat to get the camera, and she wanted to leave this beautiful picture.

Two young Tibetan people from Baima began to sing and dance in the middle of the room, each holding a bowl of wine, and the wine was not spilled!

Chen Guan didn't understand the language of the Baima Tibetans and couldn't understand what they were singing, but he guessed that it must be a toast!

After the two young Tibetan people on the white horse finished singing, they walked straight to the opposite side of Chen Guan, held the bowl in both hands, and invited Chen Guan to drink.

The bowl is not big, and the wine is not satisfied, and a bowl is about three taels.

Chen Guan hurriedly stood up and said to the two Baima Tibetan youths: "This wine should not be to me first, it should be to the deputy mayor Song Boren next to me, he is the most honored guest tonight!" ”

Song Boren hurriedly said: "Xiao Chen, don't talk nonsense, there are rules for Baima Tibetans to drink and toast, and whoever this first bowl of wine is toasted to is the most honored guest." If you don't drink it, you will look down on our Baima Tibetan compatriots! This wine must be drunk! ”

Chen Guan was not ambiguous, without saying a word, he first took the wine bowl in the girl's hand, tilted his neck, and drank it with a bang!

Guo Yun pressed the shutter and took a shot of Chen Guan drinking!

After drinking, Chen Guan took the dimple in the young man's hand again, and drank it again!

After two bowls of wine, Chen Guan's face was flushed, his eyes were full of smiles, he bent down slightly, bowed to the two young Tibetan people on the white horse, and said sincerely: "Thank you!" Thank you! Thank you, fellow Tibetans in Baima! ”

As soon as Guo Zhanshan saw this posture, he immediately excused himself to go to the toilet and wanted to get up and leave the table, but he was stopped by Chu Moushan, the county magistrate sitting next to him, saying that the Baima Tibetans lived in the mountains and had a strong temperament, and they could not escape the table when they toasted.

was obviously coaxing Jean to drink more, but he put on the big hat of the White Horse Tibetan, so that Guo Zhanshan didn't dare to run.

Guo Zhanshan has a good amount of alcohol, after all, he is old and can't drink so much wine. The wine poured into the wine bowl for him was half less than Chen Guan's. That's it, after two bowls of wine, Guo Zhanshan sat on the chair, only to feel that his eyes were astringent, and he just wanted to fall asleep.

Guo Zhanshan has long been a billionaire, and he is mixed up on the scene, knowing that he can't sleep at this time, he has to toast! Otherwise, it would be rude!

The toast of the young Tibetan people in Baima stopped when Guo Zhanshan arrived. It seems that Song Boren is used to seeing this kind of scene, and they have arranged it a long time ago.

Finally it was Chen Guan's turn to toast, he originally wanted to follow the rules of Mingshui County to see people toast 12 wines, but then he thought that Song Boren and they drank too much, and if they drank too much, tomorrow's business would be affected, so they also followed the rules of Longnan to fill Song Boren's wine glasses and toast together.

Guo Zhanshan did the same, and according to Chen Guan's appearance, he toasted everyone.

After Guo Zhanshan finished saluting, he stopped drinking and began to eat.

While eating, Song Boren said as Chen Guan introduced that this place in Longnan is not only beautiful with beautiful mountains and waters, but also beautiful customs. The Baima Tibetans in Wenqu County live in the deep mountains along the Baima River in the southeast of Wenqu County, and used to hunt for a living. Unlike the Tibetans in Tibet and Qinghai, they do not have a written language, and their language is different from Tibetan, which should be a dialect of Tibetan. Moreover, the Baima Tibetans do not believe in Tibetan Buddhism, they worship gods and nature worship. Like the sun, moon, landscapes, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, as well as animals and plants, they are all objects of worship. The biggest gods worshipped by the Tibetan people in Baima are the ancestor god Pan Ghouye, the sun god and the god of five grains, and a grand "Chi Ge Day" sacrifice is held every year. "Brother Chi" is the mountain god, and "day" is the dance, that is, the dance of the mountain god. Another characteristic of the Baima Tibetan people is that they do not intermarry with foreign ethnic groups to ensure the purity of the ethnic lineage. Some scholars believe that the Baima Tibetans are actually not Tibetans, but the Di people who are called the same as the Qiang people, that is, the Di people of the Fu Jian clan who established the former Qin regime in history. Ancient texts refer to them as "White Horses".

When he said this, Song Boren smiled and said to Chen Guan: "Xiao Chen, don't dream of finding a Tibetan girl from a white horse to be your wife, they don't intermarry with foreigners!" ”

Chen Guan laughed and said that Mayor Song was really joking!

That's where information asymmetry comes in. If Song Boren knew that Chen Guan was the deputy director of the Central Plains Provincial Public Security Department and the director of the Gudu City Public Security Bureau, a dignified second-class police supervisor, and a well-known first-class heroic model of the Ministry of Public Security, I am afraid that he would immediately report to his superiors and ask the Provincial Public Security Department to send a deputy director to accompany him, let alone make fun of Chen Guan and make jokes about him.

That kind of situation is what Chen Guan doesn't want to see!

Song Boren also said that not only the Baima Tibetans in Wenqu County have distinctive characteristics, but also Kang County, which is adjacent to Wenqu County. What are the features? That is, the nine townships and towns in the southern part of Kang County have implemented a marriage leave system of "women marrying men". give birth to a boy and marry him when he is raised; Give birth to a girl, raise it, you can marry a man, pass it on to the next generation, and mainly have female blood. Moreover, after the man marries into the woman's family, he first has to change his surname, the surname of the woman, and he has to let the woman's family rename it, and giving birth to a child is also the surname of the woman. When a man marries into a woman's family, he used to not work, and the woman has the final say in every qiē in the family. Therefore, the people in this place are silent when they give birth to a boy, and they have to celebrate with a big feast when they give birth to a girl.

Chen Guan listened curiously and asked which ethnic minority is this custom?

Song Boren said that this is not an ethnic minority, but a Han nationality.

Chen Guan felt strange, so he asked if there were any characteristics of these Han people's dress?

Song Boren thought about it and said that the men there were dressed up with their heads wrapped, girded their waists, and tied their legs, which were very capable. Moreover, there is another characteristic of that place, that is, it does not believe in ghosts and gods or Buddhism, and there is not even a temple in nine townships, such a large area.

Chen Guan's brain was churning, and he felt that this was indeed strange, he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he didn't believe in Buddhism, women married men, and he wasn't a minority, this was really strange.

After thinking for a while, Chen Guan said: "This matter was not recorded in the history books in the past. This area is adjacent to Sichuan and Hanzhong, and has always been a battleground for soldiers in the past, and it is also a place where literati and scholars travel. Since the Qin Dynasty, almost all dynasties have fought here. Not to mention, from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan's troops fought a tough battle here, the Ming army fought a tough battle here during the Ming Dynasty, the Li Zicheng uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty also fought a tough battle here, and the remnants of the Taiping army pursued by the Qing army also fought here. If there had been such a custom in the past, it would have been recorded in the history books. Moreover, this custom still happened to the Han people, which shows a problem, that is, this custom only appeared after the Qing army pursued the remnants of the Taiping army. In that year, the remnants of the Taiping army went all the way to Yunnan and fled all the way into the Qinba Mountains, and the pursuing Qing army searched for a long time in the deep mountains and old forests, but found nothing. The men who are here are dressed with their heads tied, girded, and legged, and I speculate that they are descendants of the Taiping army who fled into the Qinba Mountains. It is very likely that after the remnants of the Taiping Army fled into Qinba Mountain, in the face of the cruel liquidation of the Qing army, they adopted the method of breaking the whole into parts, pretending to be mountain people, and marrying local mountain women upside down. These mountain women became the benefactors of the Taiping soldiers, in gratitude, and because the Taiping Army itself advocated equality between men and women, there was a special marriage custom of women marrying men. ”

Song Boren, Su Minghua, Chu Moushan, Tong Ming and others all listened to it with relish, they didn't eat anymore, looked at Chen Guan with their eyes, and asked him why he said that! Even Guo Yun was listening to Chen Guan intently, his eyes were shining, or he was staring at Chen Guan's eyes with affection.

Fortunately, Guo Zhanshan drank too much and couldn't take care of his baby girl. Otherwise, Guo Zhanshan would definitely remind his daughter to pay attention to the impact.

Chen Guan then explained: "Why do you say that? Because the Taiping Army does not believe in ghosts and gods, does not believe in Buddhism, but believes in God. Second, the Taiping Army advocates equality between men and women, and women can also be generals and prime ministers. Third, wrapping the head, girdling the waist, and tying the legs are exactly the attire of the soldiers of the Taiping Army. Wrapping the head is convenient for marching and fighting, and it is also to protect the head; girdles, that is to hang weapons; Leggings are easy to move. In the past, our Red Army and Eighth Route Army were tied to their legs. Mayor Song, you might as well organize scholars to carefully investigate and study from this perspective to see if there are any new discoveries! ”

Song Boren sighed: "Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years." Xiao Chen, I can't imagine that you are still a well-educated Confucian at such a young age. How many scholars can't study things thoroughly, let you say this, and it will make people pause. Not to mention, there is a township in that place, which is called Taiping Township. I heard that in the past, the villagers there did not worship ghosts and gods or believe in Buddhism, but worshiped the portrait of a person surnamed Hong. This kind of portrait was confiscated and burned down as the Four Olds during the Cultural Revolution. According to what you say, is that portrait the portrait of Hong Xiuquan, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? ”

Chen Guan said that it was possible, and it was best to let the museums and archives at the city and county levels check it carefully after returning to see if they could find this kind of portrait, and they would know it as soon as they were identified.

Su Minghua, secretary of the county party committee, said that even if the portrait was found, it was impossible to tell whether it was Hong Xiuquan. It's so old, and it's just a portrait, who can recognize if it's Hong Xiuquan!

Chen Guan smiled and said It doesn't matter, it is recorded in the appearance book of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, just look at it!

A few people didn't say anything more, urging them to hurry up and eat, and there was a show after eating!