"How's it going, it's been five days here, have you adapted to life here?" In a certain room on the second floor, Lu Shaoyun, who had finished a short break in the main hall, followed Lin Xiran into the bedroom in front of him, which the two of them would share for the next period of time. Then www.biquge.info he lowered his voice and asked, "How much do you know about the situation around the village?" ”

"Needless to say, the situation around the village has basically been figured out by the morning exercise every morning. It's the way of life of the Rong people, and I haven't been able to fully adapt to it for a while. ”

While answering Lu Shaoyun's question, Lin Xiran, who was walking around the room and showing the placement of various daily necessities to the "cousin" next to him, felt a little depressed and said: "Don't say anything else, just say the name of this Rong people, it's really hard to remember!" After five days in the village, I finally remembered the names of Uncle Hazru's family. But the names of the neighbors, I put on a crown and wore them, and I completely confused them. ”

"It's okay to remember it confusingly, anyway, the days ahead will be long, and I will always remember it if I take my time." Lu Shaoyun, who unloaded the bag from his shoulder, took out the things in the cloth bag one by one according to Lin Xiran's instructions, put them in a suitable position, and then picked up a complete set of change of clothes, and asked: "Just now, Uncle Hazru told me that you should go to the public free bathhouse for bathing, have you ever been to this bathhouse?" ”

The bathhouse that Lu Shaoyun asked about was built on the natural hot spring in the east of the village by all the villagers of Naming Village.

Due to the limited environmental conditions and the lack of vegetation in the Chuzi Mountains, where Naming Village is located, it would be too wasteful to use firewood for boiling water for bathing instead of heating or cooking. Therefore, if all the villagers in Naming Village need to bathe, they will always bring bathing utensils and a change of clothes to the bathhouse at the east end of the village.

"I've been to the bathhouse, the water is at the right temperature, and there is no smell of sulfur. If the floor in the bathhouse wasn't so slippery and the lighting conditions were better, I think it would be perfect. ”

So in this way, Lu Shaoyun, who took a change of clothes, went downstairs to find Taruk, and then walked to the bathhouse with Balya and Xia Shuanghan, who were also in the dust and needed a hot bath to relieve fatigue.

Walking in a village where all the villagers are aliens with different hair color and pupil color from the Han people, Lu Shaoyun, who has black hair and black eyes and is dressed in Hanfu, is undoubtedly very eye-catching.

On the narrow path and in the open door, those villagers who had been to the capital for business and were familiar with Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xiran would always curl the corners of their mouths and show him a friendly and welcoming smile the moment they saw him. And in the face of these kind smiling faces and other curious eyes, Lu Shaoyun will always respond politely with a decent smile.

Xia Shuanghan, who carried a bamboo basket with toiletries in the crook of his arm, quietly glanced at the villagers who were looking at Lu Shaoyun with curious eyes as he walked. Among these villagers, Xia Shuanghan quickly discovered several unfamiliar faces that she had never seen in Naming Village in her previous life.

"Could it be that they are the so-called 'sentinels'? In their previous life, they were exterminated by Ting Xuan next year, so when I came to the border, I didn't see them? Xia Shuanghan, who carefully went through this sudden flash of thought in his mind, and soon discovered the logical loophole, couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

Death from illness, leaving home, three years, there are too many reasons that may permanently change the number and appearance of the permanent residents of this village. Someone you haven't seen in your previous life must be a "sentinel"? Such speculation is too arbitrary.

What's more, what if one of them is actually a "sentinel"? The purpose of Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xiran's trip was to steal a map of the interior of Chuzi Mountain, so as long as the "sentinels" did not become vigilant or suspicious of the identities of the two of them, it was the most correct way for their three-person team to ignore, circumvent and deceive the "sentinels" before the large army sent troops to encircle and suppress the criminals in the coming year.

So, thinking of this, Xia Shuanghan made up his mind in his heart - every villager in Naming Village, when I faced them, I had to treat them as "sentinels"; However, it doesn't matter to me who the real "sentinels" are, and what they really are.

"So, Sister Frost and Bariya, we'll meet there when we're done washing?" At the entrance of the bathhouse, Taruk, who also carried a bamboo basket in the crook of his arm, raised his hand and pointed to a huge rock on the side of the road, and made an opinion about the "meeting place".

"Okay brother, then Sister Shuanghan, let's go in."

The ethereal water vapor escaped from the two entrances and exits of the bathhouse, and in the hazy white mist, Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan, who were walking towards two different entrances and exits, silently said "see you" to each other before entering the door, and then raised their feet and walked into the hot bathhouse.

When night falls, the flickering oil lamps illuminate the wooden low table and the aroma of hot dishes filled with baked naan and various dishes.

Ye Hong's family, Lu Shaoyun, Xia Shuanghan, and Lin Xiran, a total of 14 people, sat around this huge square table spliced together by a number of low tables, enjoying a sumptuous and delicious dinner.

In their view, only the lively way of eating and chatting at the dinner table is the best proof of the prosperity of the people and the harmony of the family. So, as guests who had just arrived in the village today, Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan basically only had time to answer questions at the table, and they didn't care about eating at all.

The content of the conversation went all the way from how Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan met and fell in love in the capital, to Xia Jingzhi's ability to allow them to escape marriage and entrust their daughter to their future son-in-law, to Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan's marriage and their next life plan with Lin Xiran.

Getting married, this is something that the latent trio has already explored when they were in the capital. After all, Lu Shaoyun, as a man who has been allowed by the woman's elders and has escaped marriage with his sweetheart, can decide his own lifelong events, and there is no reason why he should not marry Xia Shuanghan.

Therefore, after discussing with Ye Hong's family, Xia Shuanghan and Lu Shaoyun's wedding was scheduled for September more than a month later.

September is the month when the vast majority of villagers in Naming Village get married. There are many reasons why the wedding must be held in September.

First of all, the winters outside the Guanxi are long and cold, and from mid-October to mid-February of the following year, the entire Chuz Mountains are frozen in ice and snow. Getting married on days when there is goose feathers, heavy snow and no traffic? I believe that no normal person would do this.

Secondly, from early March to mid-July every year, more than sixty percent of the men in the village have to join the caravan that goes south to the capital to go to the capital, and it is impossible to stay in the village. In late July and throughout August, they returned from the capital to sell the goods they had brought from Kannai to the more northwestern regions, and at the same time had to agree on goods and prepare for the coming year's trip. Therefore, it is undoubtedly difficult to squeeze out time to prepare for the wedding in such a busy day.

Finally, throughout September and early October, in addition to being fully staffed to prepare for the long ice period that is coming, there will be a five-day, annual grand celebration of the Rong people from the third day of September. Therefore, holding a wedding in a festive month like September has become the best choice for most villagers.

"Shixuan, early in the morning of the twenty-fifth day, we have to take the goods and go to the direction of Persia, so in the past two days, you must hurry up and have a good rest." At the dining table, Hazru, as the head of the family, conveyed to Lu Shaoyun the specific arrangements for leaving the village for the next business. After that, the topic at the dinner table turned back to the marriage of Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan.

What Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan's wedding didn't say, it was naturally held in Yehong's house in accordance with the customs of the Rong people.

Wedding dress, wedding room, and the main marriage, Lu Shaoyun, who is about to leave the village, does not need to worry about it. Because Xia Shuanghan, who will stay in the village all the time, will complete the preliminary preparations for the wedding with the help of Baliya, who will stay in the village like her, Camorra, who will no longer be a merchant after getting married, and Sanisa, who has handled the weddings of many children.

As for Lu Shaoyun, he only needs to rush back to propose after the end of the business, and participate in the second half of the preparation activities and wedding.

"Well, I can't sing!" When the conversation progressed to the marriage proposal, Lu Shaoyun, who was asked to sing a love song to his sweetheart and offer the best animal skin he had hunted, was dumbfounded helplessly, "Do you have to sing?" Can it be replaced by something else? ”

"What, you said you couldn't sing?!" Sitting around the table, all the Rong people who were born to sing and dance were stunned. They didn't think that there were people in this world who couldn't sing!

"If you can't sing, forget it." Xia Shuanghan, who couldn't help laughing, knew that it was too difficult to let Lu Shaoyun, who didn't know music theory, compose music and lyrics by himself and then play musical instruments to sing and propose to his sweetheart according to the tradition of the Rong people. So, she proposed: "If you can't sing, you should always be able to write love poems, right?" Shixuan, you can write three love poems instead of singing love songs. ”

Lu Shaoyun happily accepted Xia Shuanghan's proposal, and Ye Hong's family also agreed with a relaxed smile after considering Lu Shaoyun's Han identity.

So in this way, the life of the latent trio in Naming Village finally officially began.

On the twenty-first day of July, the chirping of the birds and the crowing of the rooster woke up the Yehon family in their sleep. At the same time, Lu Shaoyun, Xia Shuanghan and Lin Xiran, who got up first, had also completed their morning exercises in the front yard.

After washing and breakfast, Xia Shuanghan and Lu Shaoyun, who originally planned to stay at home to help with housework, were taken out of the house by Baliya according to the advice of the elders, and started a half-day tour of Naming Village, which was familiar with the environment while shopping.

And Lin Xiran, who had not seen his "cousin" for many days, also took the initiative to undertake today's firewood task, and went out of the house with the three people in front of him.

The main road and assembly square in Naming Village, these places Lu Shaoyun had already met on the way to and from the village yesterday and to and from the bathhouse. So, Baliya, who decided to lead the team to the outskirts of the village, led the three people behind her all the way along the canal to the outside of the village.

"Frost, that should be a well, right?" On the way out of the village, some kind of stone three-story stepped structure would appear by the canal every other way, which aroused Lu Shaoyun's curiosity.

"Yes, that's a well." Glancing at the structure where each floor was square in shape, the highest floor reached the waist, and the remaining two layers were stepped to connect with the first floor, Xia Shuanghan explained: "The highest first floor, which is as large as an ordinary well, is the drinking water layer. Underground spring water gushes from the bottom of the well on the first floor, and when it is filled with the first layer, it automatically flows through the opening to the second level. ”

"Changzhang Yu, the second layer at the same height as the iliac bone, is the cleaning layer. The undrunk spring water in the first layer flows into the second layer and becomes the washing water for washing rice, vegetables, and washing. ”

"The third floor, which is larger than the bed and reaches the height of the calf, is the laundry floor, and of course, in addition to washing clothes, most of the drinking water for livestock is also taken from this floor. After the three-story well is completed, the remaining unused water flows from the gap into the canal outside the village, where it serves as irrigation and extinguishing fire. ”

"Sister Shuanghan, it seems that you know Naming Village very well!" Baliya, who turned around, used a pleasant voice to block Lu Shaoyun's unspeakable admiration for the ingenious structure of the well.

And Xia Shuanghan, who heard this, immediately realized that he had inadvertently said what he had seen and known in his previous life that he should not have known in this life. However, as long as it is inferred that her mother told her about such a trivial matter as the well, no one will doubt her. Therefore, Xia Shuanghan quickly put his heart down.

After finishing the conversation by the canal, Baliya, who had greeted the girls who were washing clothes and the young men who had gone out of the village to herd sheep, quickly led the three people behind her up the mountain.

Outside Naming Village, on the slope of the hill with a relatively gentle slope, there are patches of wood-like structures like drying fields, which aroused Lu Shaoyun's curiosity and doubts. After staying at the border for so many years and dealing with Mobei people for a long time, he never imagined that there would be such a strange thing in Naming Village.

Lin Xiran, who was walking behind Lu Shaoyun and was holding a firewood knife to collect firewood, quickly noticed Fa Xiao's doubts and curiosity, so he took the initiative to open his mouth and explained: "Brother Shixuan, do you remember, when I was in the eastern city of the capital, I once asked Baliya if anyone in the caravan had ever gone to the black market for salt and iron. At that time, Shuang Han replied that the villagers of Naming Village did not need to buy salt at all. And the reason why they don't need to buy salt is because of these salt pans in front of us. ”

Dense wooden pillars support the base of the salt pan made of wooden planks above, and on the drying field with a mud bottom and stone bricks about two inches high, countless laborers are pouring salt water from the salt well into the bamboo dustpans scattered in the salt pans, and begin to dry the salt (the dustpan is used to disperse the force of the water, and if the salt water is poured directly on the bottom of the earth-paved salt pan, the force of the water will completely wash away the bottom of the mud pool).

Countless salt pools the size of beds are packed together in a dense group, and the layers are laid out in a step-like pattern along the gentle hillside, forming a vast salt pan. The blue sky and soft clouds are reflected in the mirror-like smooth and flat salt pans, and under the wooden planks of the salt pan base, countless crystal of salt as transparent as ice cubes hang from the bottom of the salt pans.

"This ...... These ice creams are the same thing as table salt? ”

"Yes, it's the finest salt." Lin Xiran, who had already walked around the inside and outside of Naming Village in the past few days, glanced at Lu Shaoyun, who was as amazed as he was a few days ago, and added: "The villagers said that the salt produced in Yantian is a total of four grades. ”

"Premium salt, which is what you call 'ice cream', can only grow about four inches a year. Therefore, after the 'ice cube' is harvested in September every year, unless it is an important banquet such as a celebration or wedding banquet, no one in the villagers uses special salt. ”

"Salt of the first to third grades is dried in the salt pans. When the salt is harvested in the drying field where the white flowers are scraped with small wooden boards, the top layer of salt is the whitest first-class salt, which is eaten and sold by the villagers; The middle layer contains second-order salts of soil and sand grains, which are used for the processing of feed for livestock; The third-class salt, which contains a large amount of sediment at the bottom, is put into the salt dissolving pond and waits for the salt to be dried again. ”

The salt-dissolving pools that Lin Xiran mentioned are stone-built pools of the same size as baths scattered in the salt pans. After the third-class salt is poured into these pools, the redissolved salt is used again to dry the salt after the pool water has reached a saturation level.

"So that means that after the soil has been scraped off layer by layer, the bottom of the pond must be repaired from time to time in order to keep the salt pans in order?"

"Yes," Baliya, who felt the hardships of drying salt, waited for Lin Xiran's explanation to finish, pointed to the tall buckets used to carry salt water, and said, "And those buckets for transporting salt water are still very heavy after they are filled, and their weight is no less than that of an ordinary adult man." ”

"Therefore, based on the calculation of filling a drying pond with two buckets of water, there are thousands of drying fields in this salt pan all over the mountains, and you can imagine how many villagers need to pay what kind of hard work and efforts are needed to ensure the normal production of salt."

Hearing this, Lu Shaoyun, who felt that life outside the customs was not easy and was very eye-opening, continued to follow Baliya who led the way around the village. Two minutes after noon, the group that had basically completed the "half-day tour" finally arrived at the last place that the guests needed to know - Nafudi Temple.

"Sister Frost, you should know about the Naferdi Temple, right?" Pointing to a small stone temple in the mountain col, Baliya squeezed her eyes at Xia Shuanghan with a playful expression, covered her mouth and smiled: "I won't go to that temple, you can just take Brother Shixuan in." As for me and Brother Ran, we'll go back first. ”

“...... Got it, I'll take him. Xia Shuanghan, who couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, glanced at Baliya, who was laughing non-stop, raised her hand and pinched her cheek angrily and said, "You laugh again, you laugh again, when you get married, I will definitely laugh back!" ”

Standing aside and glancing at the two girls who were making trouble, Lu Shaoyun, who knew that the Rong people didn't believe in ghosts and gods, felt a little inexplicable, "Ran, have you ever been to that temple?" Which god is enshrined in it? ”

"There are no gods." Lin Xiran, who recalled what he saw in the temple, suddenly turned red, and whispered with an embarrassed expression: "When Aguirre told me not to go in, I didn't take his advice to heart, and I just quietly touched it in the early morning when no one noticed. ”

"It's just that when I got in, I quickly regretted it. Aguirre was right, this temple really wasn't where I should be going in right now. Of course, it doesn't have the value of probing at all. ”

“？？？” Lu Shaoyun, who was more and more puzzled when he heard this, frowned and asked, "What is in it?" How could I make you like this? ”

"This ...... You'd better go in and see for yourself. Lin Xiran, who was still red-faced, tied up the firewood that had been brought all the way, and then left with Baliya, who also did not plan to enter the temple.

"Shuang Han, what is this temple for, why did I ask Xi Ran, and he refused to tell me anything?"

"Hmm...... It's hard to get him to tell you, because the temple isn't a good place for him to set foot at the moment. ”

"Why?" Lu Shaoyun raised half of his eyebrows in confusion.

"Because, the temple is named after a real woman in history. Nefudi, she is a Rong woman born more than 200 years ago. In the more than 70 years of her life, she delivered and cared for more than 500 babies in total. ”

"Therefore, as can be seen from the name of the temple, the reason why the building in front of us is called 'Nefdi' is because it contains all kinds of knowledge about intercourse, child-seeking, childbirth and breastfeeding, which Nafdi has summarized based on what she has learned and known throughout her life."

"Men and women of the Rong tribe who are about to get married should go to the temple together to learn the correct, clean, and almost painless way of having sex before the wedding; Couples who are married and want to have children will go to it to learn all kinds of knowledge about fertility; Of course, various precautions for menstruation, pregnancy, and lactation, as well as the correct way to do it, are also recorded in this temple. ”

"So, do you think that in a situation like Ibalia and Xiran, they are suitable to go in now?"

"......" Lu Shaoyun, who probably guessed the reason for Lin Xiran's red face, was blindfolded, he didn't understand, didn't Xiran not know the Rong language? So, when he can't understand the text in the temple at all, what is his shyness with a red face? Could it be that there are not only words in this, but also pictures?!

In the stone Nafdi temple, there is a life-size statue of Nafdi, and behind the statue is a narrow and winding passage like a labyrinth.

On the stone walls on both sides of the passage, dense Rong characters and simple lines of colorful paintings cover most of the walls. And these words and paintings recorded on the wall are the reason why the Rong people of Naming Village set foot here. (To be continued.) )