"Yunshan Chronicles" is the third chapter of the sixth year of the Tang Dynasty

Remember: I once saw the book on the clouds, the origin of wine, or it is said that people have Tibetan rice and fermented it; Or it is said that people enter the mountains and get it from the ape cave. Regardless of where they originated, it is inevitable that apes, like humans, will be addicted to alcohol. Rice grains are mostly used in human wine, while ape wine is mostly fruitful. There is also a kind of medicinal wine, which is called the 'Divine Comedy', and the auspiciousness is unknown. However, it is no wonder that the white ape takes the essence of the hundred grasses in the mountains and the condensation of the flowers to make wine, and makes the best of the spirit of heaven and earth...... Unspeakable, unspeakable. People should not be greedy, and the white ape hides in the mountains, so don't be greedy and look for it when you see this article. When you find it empty-handed, it's too late to regret it. Cheche - Yunshan Luoyun

Of course, the ancestor didn't know what Luo Yun was thinking in his head, but he clearly heard Luo Yun's stomach screaming again. Looking down, I saw that Xiao You had already eaten half of the wild boar, and he was almost full. Gesturing to the two white apes, the male walked over to the boar. Xiao You looked at the white ape with a little hostility, the white ape ignored him, looked at the wild boar whose stomach was almost gnawed clean, kept holding the wild boar with his hand, and pulled it off with one hand with a hind leg. Turn around and throw it directly into the fire. Luo Yun looked at the wild boar leg that was still covered in blood, is the white ape just roasting meat like this? He didn't dare to eat it when it was baked, and I'm afraid I'd have indigestion if I ate it.

He climbed down the ancestor's arm, picked up a stick, walked around the white ape's huge body, walked to the fire, and pulled out the wild boar leg. Squatted down and looked through it, but fortunately, the thick and hard pig hair was burned clean. Reached out and touched his waist, fortunately he remembered to bring a knife when he went out today. Peel the pork skin, wash the blood and roast it, and it should still be edible. He took out a knife with a wooden handle, peeled off the pigskin on the wild boar's leg under the watchful eyes of the ancestor and the two white apes, looked at the pig's trotters stained with dirt, and cut it for a long time with the knife, and made his hands dirty. Reluctantly gave up. Turn around and go get water to wash your hands. The female white ape looked at it for a long time, and when she saw Luo Yun give up, she reached out and picked up the pig's leg, and gently ...... 'click' with her two fingers. The pig's trotters fell into the fire.

He poured a little water from the husk and washed his hands. Then he came to the peeled pork leg with the husk in both hands, and looked at the bone stubble exposed at the disappeared pig's trotters, a little speechless. After a while, he finally put a wild boar leg on the fire. Only then did Luo Yun remember that there was no salt, so what could this taste like. Shaking his head, the conditions are limited, just stuff your stomach, you can't ask for too much.

Sitting by the fire and waiting for the meat to be cooked, Luo Yun's stomach couldn't help but scream again. The female white ape was very understanding, took out an unknown large fruit from her waist pocket and handed it to Luo Yun, raised her hand and patted her lips, and made a eating motion. The fruit was the size of a watermelon, and the skin was so soft that I couldn't recognize what it was. Luo Yun cut a little with a knife and tasted it, it was a little sour, but it was not bad. "Thank you." Luo Yun nodded to the female white ape, ate another piece, looked at the white ape couple again, and turned his head to look at the ancestor: "What should I call them?" Even if it's your grandson, you should be able to be my grandfather at your age, right? ”

Yuan Zu shook his head at Luo Yun, looked at the white ape couple, and waved his hand casually. "You call me whatever you want? Isn't that rude? Luo Yun looked at the ancestor who didn't care, and then looked at the white ape couple, only to find that the pair of white apes hadn't even sat down since they entered the cave. It seems that they are not qualified to sit with the ancestor at all, or that the status of the ancestor is too high, and as grandchildren, they are not allowed to offend or transgress in front of the ancestor at all. Luo Yun thought about it, thinking about the attitude of the ancestor towards him, and felt that his status here should be the same as that of the nine children of the ancestor. That is, putting aside the concept of age, he should be the elder of the two white apes. At least the fathers.

"And I named them?" Seeing that the ancestor nodded after thinking for a while, Luo Yun turned his head and looked at the two white apes carefully. The white ape couple seemed to be able to understand his words, and they stood side by side beside Luo Yun very cooperatively. Seeing that they were a little nervous, Luo Yun couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart, although he really wanted them to sit down casually. But there are some things in Luo Yun that he can't just be casual if he wants.

Rules are not only a constraint, but also a necessary etiquette. In the face of heaven and earth, kings, and elders, there should be rules and etiquette that no one can violate. It's like if Luo Yun asked the two white apes to sit down at this time, not to mention whether the two white apes dared to do it. Luo Yun's seemingly amiable behavior was a contempt and violation of the identity of the patriarch's elder.

Etiquette is absolutely necessary for normal human interaction. Just as the law is absolutely necessary for the normal order of human society. Mortals face heaven and earth, courtiers face kings, and children and grandchildren face elders, all have their own etiquette and rules that must be followed, which cannot be abandoned by a simple sentence of 'affinity'. Heaven and earth, kings, and elders can choose whether or not to be 'friendly', but as mortals, courtiers, and juniors, they can't forget the rules because of whether they are 'friendly' or not. Forgetting it will inevitably bring tragedy: heaven and earth are unkind, monarchs and ministers are disliked, and children and grandchildren are not filial.

"Well...... I don't have much talent for naming names, the most important thing is that I'm afraid that I will meet the other descendants of the ancestor again, and I won't be able to call you a family when you get together. The name is just a title I gave you, and it won't be recorded in the book of life and death as I say, so it's not good, I hope you don't care. Luo Yun stood up very solemnly and bowed to the two white apes, and the white ape couple looked at the ancestor with their eyes, shook their bodies and did not move. Luo Yun raised his head and looked at the two big men who were more than a foot tall, his right hand was wrapped around his chest and his left arm was supported, and his left index finger was pressed against his chin and he thought for a while and said, "You two brought me food and water. The water is yin, and the food is woody and positive, so ......" Luo Yun pointed to the male white ape, "I'll call you 'Yuan Wu', the plane of the plane tree." "And point to the female white ape" and your wife ...... Let's call it 'Bai Yang'. The clouds and mountains are green, and the white water is clear. If I'm not mistaken, Yunshan should also be within the 'jurisdiction' of the two of them, neighbors, take care of them in the future. ”

The white ape couple ignored Luo Yun's words, and as soon as the name was said, they immediately shifted their inquiring gaze from Luo Yun to the ancestor sitting on the side. Seeing that the ancestor nodded, the white ape couple ...... No, it should be possible to call it 'Yuanwu' and 'Bai Yang' by now, and the husband and wife bowed to Luo Yun together, and let out a whisper of 'hmm-' from their mouths. Luo Yun began to jump, and just wanted to cover his ears, but the voice had disappeared. It seems that not every white ape has the ability to sound like thunder, otherwise these white apes all over the mountains and forests don't need to speak, if they were like those gorillas who are okay and roar with their chests and two throats, the animals in this mountain forest would have been shocked to death.

Luo Yun saw the movements of the two white apes, smiled slightly, and returned the owe. Then he walked over to the fire and turned the roast pork leg over, which was almost burned. The hands are moving casually, but the heart lake can't help but surge. 'Can the white ape really be called a beast?' They have their own language, basic wisdom and philosophy, and most importantly, their people have the most basic etiquette. Isn't the reason why humans are different from animals is that their behavior is constrained by the norms of behavior that are agreed upon by the group? The white apes are just like the original cave people, they have learned to use fire, their race has been divided into upper and lower, if they continue to live quietly in the mountains, will they evolve a smart race like humans in dozens or hundreds of years?

If you zoom in a little more, is it true that you only care about primates? Isn't it possible for other animals to evolve? Human civilization has been in place for thousands of years, and human beings are not immutable, so why do you think that those animals have been the same way and a way of thinking for thousands of years? There must be a special existence, otherwise the ancients would have made up some beasts classified as beasts by humans, and so many demons and ghosts appeared. Even putting aside the legend of fairies and monsters, wouldn't there be some particularly 'smart' beasts? Or it can't be like humans or white apes that the whole race produces intelligence, but there are definitely individual beings.

Thinking of this, Luo Yun couldn't help but look back at the ancestor, whether he could take advantage of the white ape clan to have the opportunity to see this mystery hidden in the deep mountains and unknown to humans, what kind of wonderful world it was.

The wild boar leg was roasted, albeit slightly charred. Because Luo Yun had always been a little absent-minded, he grabbed the pig's leg with some effort and walked to the ancestor and sat down, looking left and right to see that there was nothing that could be used as a table. In the end, I picked two fairly clean pieces of wood and put them underneath. Luo Yun used a knife to cut off the charred part, then cut a piece of meat, held it up and looked at the ancestor, "Do you want to taste it?" "I haven't seen the ancestor eat, and Luo Yun is very skeptical that the ancestor has reached the level of what Taoism calls 'Bigu' and no longer needs to eat.

The ancestor shook his head and took out the jasper gourd from his bag, Luo Yun once again knew that although the ancestor's hand was very large, it was very dexterous. Because he gently took off the mouth of the gourd, which was the size of a grape to him, raised the gourd and took a sip, then inserted the mouth of the gourd and put it back in the bag. Luo Yun looked a little stunned, until he found that his arm was still holding the meat, and then he reacted, and tore the meat into pieces and ate it slowly. Thinking back to the experience of this day, when he looked up to fetch water, he found that Yuan Wu and Bai Yang had retreated to the cave corridor at some point, and sat down one after the other. Suddenly remembered what he had just said when he named Bai Yang, swallowed the food in his mouth, and looked up at the ancestor: "Qinling is so big, how could you go to Yunshan in person?" Even if it's for ......" Luo Yun pointed to Xiao You, who seemed to be asleep lying in a patch of grass, "For the sake of this little black cat, let Yuanwu and them run for a trip, and use it to bother your big driver." ”

Yuan Zu looked at Xiao You and shook his head, then looked at Luo Yun, as if he didn't know how to explain to him, and finally seemed to remember something and put his hand into his bag and took something. Then he opened his palm in front of Luo Yun, and when Luo Yun looked at it, he couldn't help but be surprised, this seemed to be ...... Maybe...... Should...... It is a type of herb. The point is that Luo Yun has not studied medicine, so he can see that this seems to be a stalk and a few leaves of some kind of herbaceous plant, and it will be too difficult for him if you ask him to name it. "Ancestor, you...... Mountains full of herb picking? ”

Yuan Zu nodded, then stretched out his finger and pointed at Yuan Wu and Bai Yang, and then pointed to the stalagmite in the cave. Yuan Wu and Bai Yang obviously kept an eye on the ancestor's movements, and immediately after being pointed out, we got up and walked into the cave. Luo Yun picked up a burning fire stick and went to the small pit in the stalagmite to take a look. Kindness...... Still can't see it, it's a little reflective, but it's not a liquid, it seems to be a paste. Luo Yun raised his head and looked at Yuanwu Baiyang again, the two white apes seemed to hear the conversation between him and the Yuanzu, and reached out and took out a handful of various herbs from their respective pockets. With such a strong body, why does the white ape collect so many medicines?

Luo Yun sat back beside the ancestor, and Yuan Wu and Bai Yang retreated to the Yongdao as soon as they saw that they had nothing to do. "Ancestor, human beings collect plants and trees as medicine to cure diseases and save lives. Fang Shi quarries gold stone and spiritual wood as medicine, and practices the elixir of strengthening the body and forging the body. Ancestor, do you need medicine for such a strong body? ”

The ancestor shook his head, took out the jasper gourd again, and pointed at it. Luo Yun frowned, then unfolded, and said excitedly: "Ancestor, you pick herbs and make wine?!" Yuan Zu nodded, as if he was very proud of this, Luo Yun saw the corner of his mouth grinning, this is a rare facial expression, and he couldn't help but laugh twice.

Ape winemaking, this, this is really ...... I remember once seeing in a tree, and a person who went into the mountains to chop wood and hunt smelled the aroma and found that there was a fragrant liquid like wine in the ape's cave. However, humans believe that apes do not know how to make wine, but that it is obtained from the decay and fermentation of stored grain, just like when humans invented it. However, today, Luoyun is in the wine culture and its prosperous Tang Dynasty, but he has not really drunk the fine wine brewed by various crafts, and in the mountains, several uncles will buy some yellow rice wine to drink during festivals. But he never touched it. The first sip of wine I drank in this life was made 'deliberately' by the white ape.

Thinking of this, Luo Yun couldn't help pursing his lips, as if he wanted to relive the taste of the wine he drank before, but unfortunately his mouth was only filled with the dry taste of wild boar. However, the feeling of drinking it at that time was indeed very wonderful, and the benefits to the body were also obvious, and it is estimated that the ancestor was so good because he had been drinking this wine.

If you think about it carefully, this possibility is very high, and look at the ancestors who have lived so long and had such a status through the mountains and mountains. Looking at the appearance of Yuan Wu and Bai Yang, and looking at this cave with stalactites and stalagmites, Luo Yun probably guessed the daily life of the white ape clan. The ancestor is not counted, he is absolutely free. And his descendants were assigned by him to the entire Qinling Mountains, and the animals survived according to the laws of nature and did not need external powerful forces to manage and intervene. Then what these white apes should do in their respective territories is to collect all kinds of medicinal herbs and find all kinds of natural and earthly treasures to make wine. And the ancestor toured the entire mountain range from time to time. When he met the ancestor during the day, it should be because he happened to come to the neighborhood and learned about the existence of the alien black blue tiger from those monkeys. The main reason is that this kind of tiger, that is, Xiao You's strength is much stronger than that of ordinary tigers, and the ancestor just thought about it and wanted to take a look.

Although Luo Yun's thoughts are not bad, he still thinks about it simply. As mentioned earlier, in this vast mountain, the ancestor lived again, and he didn't know that he had only seen a peculiar beast in the spring and autumn period. And the white ape clan is not just picking herbs. Why is it said that the more ignorant creatures who have not departed from nature, the more they understand the truth of the cycle of heaven and earth, and the endless life. They are not like humans who simply plunder, and white apes never do anything to cut off their roots.

On the contrary, they will try their best to ensure that those herbs that have been growing for ten years, hundreds of years, and thousands of years with spirituality continue to grow, and will not be wantonly destroyed by ignorant creatures. And it's not just the white ape clan that does such a thing, in fact, many spiritual grasses such as Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng that are more than a hundred years old or thousands of years old are guarded and protected by beasts like Xiao You, which are much stronger than their own clan.

In human legends, there will always be a treasure that defeats a powerful beast and obtains some kind of elixir treasure that can save people's lives or have other special effects. Just the next morning, Luo Yun saw such a vivid example. Accompanied by Yuan Wu and Bai Yang, Yuan Zu took Luo Yun and Xiao You to an unknown mountain. In fact, once he left the range of Yunshan, where he went, Luo Yun was unknown, and he didn't even know how far away he was from home now.

Back to the mountain in front of you. The mountain is not high, there are no steep peaks, the slope is not very smooth, and there are stones everywhere. There are hardly any big trees, just a few scattered shrubs and weeds. However, Luo Yun obviously has eyes and does not know gold and jade, as the saying goes, it is called blind who do not know the goods. The ancestors came for these grasses.

In the middle of a pile of rocks there was a few small grasses growing lonely. It wasn't until the Ancestor stopped five meters away, and Luo Yun, who was sitting on its shoulder, set his eyes on the grass. Squinting his eyes, he took a closer look at the grass, the stems were square, the leaves were round, and there were small yellow flowers growing on the top. Luo Yun couldn't see anything peculiar about this grass, and wanted to ask, but thought that the ancestor couldn't explain this specific question to him at all. However, it was still very strange why the ancestor stopped here, and Yuan Wu and Bai Yang did not immediately come forward to collect medicine. Suddenly hearing Xiao You's roar, Luo Yun looked intently and found that Xiao You's eyes were staring ahead, vigilantly retreating step by step, until he retreated behind the ancestor. What can make Xiao Yu scared like this? Luo Yun, who was slightly sluggish, followed the ancestor's line of sight, his mind condensed, and he immediately heard a slight friction sound coming from the pile of rocks in front of him.

Today's weather is good, there are not many clouds in the sky, and the morning sun is a little harsh. Luo Yun put his hands on the pergola and looked at the wide rock crevices, and could already slightly see that there should be a cave under the pile of stones. After a while, Luo Yun saw the creature that scared Xiao You and asked the ancestor to keep a warning distance of five meters. To be honest, when the earthy yellow diamond-shaped head stretched out from the shadows, Luo Yun couldn't help but shudder, that is, no matter how afraid of wild beasts, people will always have their own preferences, and then cold-blooded animal people who like scales are a minority after all. The body in front of him that had just stretched out from the hole more than a meter long, revealing its gray abdomen forward, hiding the yellow scales with fine patterns behind it, holding its head high, staring at the inky black diamond-shaped eyes, and spitting out a crimson slender snake believed that it was a poisonous snake that had never been seen before.

Luo Yun judged that it was a poisonous snake because the ancestor kept a distance from it, if the snake was not highly venomous, even if its body hidden in the cave was as thick as a giant python, it would be torn to pieces by the ancestor. Whether its fangs can bite through the muscles of the ancestor is another question.

Another basis is that Luo Yun knows that snakes like to be wet and swampy. And this mountain is dry and withered and doesn't even have a tree, even if the grass is magical, since this snake has the ability to make the ancestor vigilant, it shouldn't be difficult to find an aquatic elixir to guard. And it chose here, Luo Yun could only delusionally imagine that the appearance of almost no grass on this mountain had nothing to do with it.

However, the facts proved once again that Luo Yun really underestimated these powerful beasts.