The land is barren, lacking water and mountainous. Thirty miles south from Luoshui Pass, after Luoshui is the territory of the servants. Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the servants came out of the mountains and forests, and wanted to flock to the Chengdu Plain, but who expected that the powerful Qin State would collapse the Shu State in an instant and take the vast plain as their own. In the face of the powerful Qin State, the servants had no choice but to retreat here.

A small river meanders out and flows quietly down the cliffs. There are either barren grass or dense forests, and the one-foot-wide path is very difficult to walk. Su Ren brought a few truckloads of goods this time, and it was difficult to move forward in such a place.

While pushing the cart, Hawking complained: "I knew that this place was so difficult to walk, so I didn't bring so many things, and the bad master still had to push the cart, let's go to give gifts, and those servants didn't come to pick it up." ”

On the other side of the river is a steep cliff with several decaying coffins hanging high above the cliff. The wind and rain blew it, and the coffin was almost in pieces, revealing the corpses inside. The bones are hideous, and the air conditioning is fierce. Night owls even called in the middle of the day, and the miserable cries added to the horror of the place.

Su Ren glanced up and asked Lu Yi: "Miss Lu Yi, you are a servant, what does your custom of putting the coffin on the cliff mean?" ”

Lu Yi also glanced up at the coffin on the cliff. The age is a long time, it should be the ancestor of the earth, I don't know when it was erected: "There is such a saying among my servants, the higher the hanging coffin, the more auspicious, and the first to fall is more auspicious, just like you Han people go into the ground for peace, in order to shade future generations." ”

Su Ren nodded: "I always thought that you servants put the coffin so high in order to get closer to your gods, and when I heard you say this, I finally understood, the original is that sentence, climb high and fall miserably!" ”

"You said that you servants, you have nothing to do when you are full, and you have to put the corpses of your ancestors so high, not to mention the wind and sun, but also to see who falls first, you are letting your ancestors die without a complete corpse!"

"You!" Lu Yi was bitten by Su Renqi's silver teeth, so he wanted to make a move, but after thinking about it, he beat the horse and left.

Sima Xiangru shook his head: "Why do you provoke a woman so much, speaking of which the girl is quite pitiful, for his clansmen in my Han land for several years, a woman has such endurance, and she can be regarded as a heroine among women." ”

"Come on! That's a servant man who has no ability, dare to ask Brother Changqing, do we Han people have a tradition of letting women prevent disasters? ”

This sentence happened to be heard by Lu Yi, and she sneered: "You Han heroes, just make peace with the Huns every year, and marry the Han princess far away, this is the ability of your Han men!" ”

Su Ren was choked by this sentence and couldn't say anything, and quickly turned his head to look at Sima Xiangru. Sima Xiangru smiled slightly, turned his head and ignored him.

"What do you know as a woman? This is called a beauty trick, do you understand it! Gou Jian will destroy Wu with Xishi, and my Han will destroy the Huns with a princess! Su Ren is still arguing with reason.

Lu Yi finally found something that could hit Su Ren, how could he let it go: "Hehe, it is indeed a beauty plan, it is said that the Xiongnu Shan Yu asked your queen mother Lu to marry, that is the queen of your ancestors, you Han people are helpless, presumably Lu must be an old woman who is as beautiful as a fairy, hahaha......"

Su Ren's face turned into the bottom of the pot, and he whipped Hawking: "Make some effort, you have been walking this little way, when will you see the servant?" ”

Hawking looked at Su Ren aggrievedly. The weather is cold and thick, and it doesn't hurt to be whipped, but I feel aggrieved: It's obvious that the woman is squeezing you, why are you beating me?

Matangba was Su Ren's first stop when he entered the land of servants, and there was a small village of servants here. Far away, I saw a huge procession coming out of the village, all dressed in rags, and some of the women's clothes could not even cover their bodies. Servants like black, a large area of black, from time to time to show yellow skin, or those key parts, which makes people look particularly uncomfortable.

There were a lot of people, and it was supposed that the whole village was dispatched. Lu Yi hurriedly dismounted: "Get out of the way, don't rush!" ”

"What do you mean? What are these people going to do? ”

"Someone must have passed away, and his coffin should be put on the cliff!"

Su Ren hurriedly grew up, and in the middle of the team, a yak cart pulled a black coffin. Several men and women dressed in black cried around the coffin. The road was just like that, and the teams on both sides were about to meet. It was basic common sense to make way for the dead, but the wagon full of goods was so heavy that it didn't move for a long time. Midori looked anxious and reached out to help. More than a dozen people worked together to get out of the way before the funeral procession could come.

The servants passed in front of Su Ren and the others without saying a word, and looked at this group of Han people with angry eyes one by one. Some children want to reach out and touch what's in the car, and they are immediately slapped on the hand by an adult. Until the entire funeral procession passed, none of the older adults had a good face.

Su Ren wiped the sweat from his head and asked Lu Yi, "What do you say they are going to do?" ”

Lu Yi rolled his eyes: "With the coffin, it is naturally a cliff burial." ”

"Oh? Then I'll have to take a look! Su Rensa ran in the direction of the white horse: "Little gold, go and see how these servants make the coffin up the cliff more than ten feet high!" ”

There is a cliff next to the small river to the north of Matang Dam, on which many coffins have been placed. The hanging coffin of this servant is a mystery for the ages, and many so-called scholars and experts in later generations cannot understand how the servant relied on backward technology to raise those coffins to such a high place. Seeing it for yourself today is the time to solve this eternal mystery.

Sacrifices and various ceremonies were not interesting to Su Ren. When everything was over, he suddenly heard a loud roar, and the hanging coffin officially began, and Su Ren was very excited. I saw a few servants carrying the coffin to the bottom of the cliff, and the long rope hung down from the top of the cliff.

"Big brother, there's someone up there!"

As Hawking pointed out, a dozen sturdy servants on the cliff clutched two thick ropes, one end of which hung above the coffin. The people under the cliff tied up the coffin, and there was another loud roar, and the servants on the cliff began to exert themselves. With the ascension of the servant, the coffin was raised little by little, until the hanging coffin was selected dozens of meters away, and then it stopped.

The two men who hung down from it with ropes tied to each had a giant log behind them. With the help of the servants above, the two giant logs were put into the cave that had already been built. The giant wood was fixed with wooden wedges and stones, and under the command of the commander, the coffin was lowered little by little, and placed on the two giant trees smoothly.

This process lasts a long time, from noon until the sun sets. The servants of the entire village were busy securing the coffin. The men were at the top of the cliff, the women were at the bottom of the cliff, and the one with the loudest voice in the village was the conductor. Dozens of people cooperated tacitly, and all the steps were completed in one go, and in this way, a coffin containing the dead man was placed on the cliff face thirty or forty meters above the ground.

Su Ren frowned, it was so simple!

Thinking of the various speculations of those experts and professors in later generations, winches, high platforms and even simple lifting equipment, in order to show their wisdom, were imposed on the simple ideas of the ancients. Manpower is the most reliable and direct method! Although the coffin was bumped and bumped during the process, as long as it was not broken, it was within the allowable range. One of the characteristics of the servant's coffin is that it is hollowed out of the whole tree, and some small collisions will not cause any harm to it.

Not in the mood to look at the servant's evening memorial again, Su Ren took Hawking and walked back.

Seeing Su Ren bowing his head and pondering, Hawking said: "These servants are really strange, it's better for us Han people, people are dead, dig a pit and bury it, it saves more trouble!" ”

Su Ren was amused by Hawking's words.

Yes, different people have different ideas about the way of funeral. The cliff burial of the servants, the heavenly burial on the plateau, and the sea burial by the sea are all one way. And the most used are burial and cremation, to put it bluntly, because these two funeral methods are the most convenient. Anytime, anywhere, without being restricted or affected by any conditions.

Seeing that a few people were back, Lu Yi stepped forward: "How is it?" Don't you think it's spectacular, do you admire our servants? ”

Su Ren snorted coldly: "One word, stupid!" People are dead, and they have to suffer like this, put them up and down in the coffin, think about it or we Han people are the most direct, dead, find a pit to bury, simple and practical, and it will become fertilizer, how good it is to moisten the earth. ”

"You! It's simply not human! Lu Yi was really angry this time, so he turned around and left.

The people of Matangba are all paying respects to the dead under the cliff, and it is not suitable to enter the village at this time. Su Ren asked everyone to set up camp outside the village. While the water was boiling for cooking, the servants' memorial procession returned. The freshly boiled rice porridge sends the aroma to a far away place with the wind. The hungry servants stared wide one by one, and the children ran towards the Suren camp. Looking at the milky white rice porridge in the pot, the clothes on my chest were wet with saliva.

"Want to eat?" Hawking scooped a small spoonful, blew it, and smiled and handed it to a skinny child standing at the front. The child's eyes glowed green, and he glanced at Hawking, and was about to move his mouth.

"Smack!" Behind him, a servant slapped the boy on the head. The thin body stumbled and fell far away.

Hawking was furious, threw down the spoon, and grabbed the guy who hit the child: "Why did you hit him? ”

The man didn't speak, his eyes were full of anger, and he gritted his teeth and glared at Hawking. Behind him, more and more servants ran over and surrounded Su Ren's small camp. When Huang 13 saw the servants rushing over, he immediately called more than a dozen guards and took weapons to cheer for Hawking, and the people on both sides formed a confrontation situation.

Sima Xiangru anxiously asked Su Ren: "Sir, if you don't care about it, something big will happen!" ”

Su Ren smiled: "Don't worry, there can't be a big deal, some people don't want to die!" ”

Before Su Ren finished his words, Lu Yi and her two servants hurriedly ran towards the place where they confronted. As he ran, he shouted loudly in the words of a servant.

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