I'm a cowherd

Why did I come to the mountains

Why should I herd cattle?

Is it because I can only herd cattle?

I'm a cowherd

There are also my beautiful dreams

At least I'm good at nunchucks

Is there still a long way to go for success?

I love my home

There is a dear mother

The outside world doesn't know yet

Too small to wander the world

Wandering the world

It's my mom who gives me warmth

Give me strength, it's a nunchuck

The outside world must be exciting

I can't fly until I'm older

……

The loud voice, the incomplete timbre of the pentatonic tones, penetrated through the thick weeds, penetrated the dense forests, leaped over the mountains, and spread far and wide......

Li Xin opened his throat and unscrupulously showed off his inferior singing voice. He changed "I'm an Ugly Duckling" into "I'm a Cowherd Baby" without any discipline, changed it badly, sang it even worse, if the original author knew, I don't know if he would be angry to death. Li Xin thought shamelessly, then again, I am now in ancient times, he can still chase me and beat me, wahaha......

Li Xin smiled shamelessly again.

It's boring. Li Xin turned his head and sighed again. There is no entertainment program at all, and I am used to the era when the mobile phone does not leave my body and the network will not be broken, and it is really boring to go back to the black and white era. I wonder what the other time-travelers think?

Herding cattle is the only thing Li Xin can do at present. So now he only has to herd cattle.

It's only been three days, except for the first day when the cow was borrowed, and I lay at home for a day, and the next day I started my career as a herding cow.

The first day of herding cattle was really fresh and fun. The sky is such a basket, the earth is so green, and the fragrance of the fragrant grass mixed with the earth is so beautiful. Green mountains and clear waters, such places also exist in modern times, but they are all made into tourist attractions, every time I go to travel, I see the crowded heads, mixed with modern equipment, stacked steel buildings, imitation ancient houses, has lost its original taste, the original ecological environment is nowhere to be found......

The old ox can be tied to a big tree casually, and there is a lot of grass anyway.

In the grass, the old ox silently buried its head in the grass, and raised its head from time to time to call twice, indicating its existence.

Li Xin despised the old scalper, a thousand-year-old character who had not changed for thousands of years, with a rigid voice and stiff movements. Changing the routine, dear old scalper......

The old scalper didn't take Li Xin's contempt in his eyes, you don't understand the world of our cattle clan.

If you are bored, you can only pass the time with singing.

"Xiaoxin, what are you shouting?" The little daughter-in-law of the Yang family in the village, carrying a shackle on her back and holding a firewood knife, passed by Li Xin, leaned against a big stone, took a breath, and asked with a smile.

"Huh...... Aunt Yang, I'm singing! Li Xin was interrupted by the Yang family's little daughter-in-law, and did not complain. said to the little daughter-in-law of the Yang family with a smile.

The little daughter-in-law of the Yang family has a maiden name of Wei, and has been married to the Yang family for 2 years, but she has never conceived a child, she likes the lively and lovely Li Xin very much, and has always wanted to have such a son. She is about 1.5 meters tall, with a shriveled and thin body, and a few finches dotted on her dark face. After many years of farming career, his health is still healthy. The woman in the mountains got married early, and her age seems to be older than Su Qidu, but in fact, she has just turned 17 years old, and she is just a high school student in the next generation. Been married here for 2 years. She has no complaints about life, and the people around her tell her with their actions that life is so hard, and it would be good to be able to live.

It's not easy to live in the mountains. Li Xin sighed secretly.

"Singing? Singing isn't a whine...... Hey...... Woo...... Hey...... Yes? "The little daughter-in-law of the Yang family is talking about the Yinfeng Department of the Ba tribe in the place singing together during the New Year every year.

On the first day, Li Xin had already learned some about the situation in the Yinfeng Department through chatting with Su Qi.

Yinfeng is located in the mountains of the south cave of Daba Mountain, and belongs to the largest ethnic group here, the Ba people. The Ba tribe is divided into eight tribes: Mingyang Division, Baile Division, Water Mill Division, Happy Division, Tongshu Division, Bishan Division, Quiet Division, and Yinfeng Division.

At present, the location where they live belongs to the Silver Peak Department. Not all of the local residents belong to the Ba ethnic group, mixed with a small number of Miaojia, Tujia, Han and so on. Su Qiben belonged to the Yinfeng Department of the Ba nationality, but when he was a child, he had migrated with his parents' family, broke away from the tribe, married into the Li family, and became a Han nationality. Although she is back now, she and Li Xin do not belong to the Silver Peak Department. Although the elder Uncle Zhi, who had a good relationship with her parents before, came to ask Su Qi and Li Xin if they wanted to return to the Yinfeng Department. Uncle Zhi, as an elder of the Yinfeng Department, came to ask in person, which was already very interesting. Su Qi did not agree, saying that Li Xin was still young, and when he grew up, it would be up to Li Xin to see what he meant. In this way, now Su Qi and Li Xin belong to outsiders, but the people in the mountains are more honest and dutiful, and they still get along well.

The little daughter-in-law of the Yang family's understanding of singing is still at the stage of singing at the sacrifice of the Yinfeng Ministry. As a foreigner, Li Xin also went to see the traditional activity of the Yinfeng Tribe, which was to worship the god of fire.

China is so big, each ethnic group has its own totem and belief in the gods, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, the five gods, in this era have different tribal ethnic groups to believe in and worship. The Ba people believe in fire, the god of fire.

At the end of each year, the priest of the clan chooses the day, and the patriarch uniformly informs the time of the sacrifice.

In the evening of the same day, the Yinfeng tribe of the Ba nationality will gather from all directions to the summit square of the main peak of Yinfeng Mountain, light a majestic bonfire, and set up a table next to the bonfire, on which a pig's head, a sheep's head, a fish, and a turtledove are placed.

These four sacrifices are elaborate, the family - pigs, the mountains - sheep, the water - fish, and the sky - turtledoves. Thank you to the god of fire for blessing your tribe with a good harvest that year. It is all meat dishes, and it also reflects no disaster (fast) and no disease (chicken).

The priest would stand at the desk, dressed in traditional attire, with a solemn expression and a babbling mouth, and begin to report on the people and events of the year.

Behind stood 33 young men selected from the sturdy clan, divided into three rows, each with his face painted with sheep's blood, shirtless, with a tiger belt around his waist, straw sandals on his feet, and a bowl in both hands, which was filled with rice wine. When the priest finished praying, he would shout, "Worship the god of fire!" Everyone will hold the rice wine high above their heads, should shout: "Woo~~~Ha~~~", and then dip a little rice wine in the bowl with their right hand, bend their fingers, and then flick the rice wine to the sky, which is called a respect for the sky, bounce to the earth, this is called two respect to the ground, and then bounce to the fire, this is called three respects to the god of fire, and drink the rice wine in the bowl in the last breath. The surrounding Ba people will bow to the fire and thank the god of fire for his blessing.

After the sacrifice was completed, the crowd began to dance under the leadership of the priest, and their mouths were "woo...... Hey...... Woo...... Hey......" sang without lyrics, just these two words, repeated according to different rhythms......

"Well, there are many kinds of singing, and this one of them is me." Li Xin grinned and explained to the little daughter-in-law of the Yang family.

"Brother Xin'er, amazing, do you still understand this? Did your mother teach you? The little daughter-in-law of the Yang family is a little envious, she knows more than her at a young age.

"Uh......" Li Xin could only acquiesce and explain clearly to a village woman.

"Brother Xin, tell you something, when I came over just now, I saw Mrs. Cui coming to your house, is it to tell you about your daughter-in-law? Haha......"

The children in the mountains are in charge early, although Li Xin is only 8 years old, so he told him that he is a daughter-in-law, this matter is unreliable no matter how you look at it, but this situation is very likely to be true. The people in the mountains felt that their daughters were not easy to raise, and they had to marry them when they were raised, and they had to bring a dowry, which was a great burden for the already poor peasant families. Therefore, many families will look for a better family when their daughters are young, send them over early, let the husband's family raise them by themselves, and when they are older, they will directly round the house, and such a daughter-in-law is called a child daughter-in-law. This is also a good thing for the husband's family, the child is sent over at such a young age, and only a small amount of money and food can be done, although there is one more person to eat, and the family that can raise children and daughters-in-law is not bad, and it doesn't matter if there is one more. After all, when you grow up, it costs a lot to marry a daughter-in-law. Such things have existed in thousands of years of history, all the way to the Republic of China. It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that such traditional customs were abolished.

"Ah...... No way! Li Xin shouted, child daughter-in-law, I met it. Li Xin encountered such a thing in later life, and Grandma Liang, who lived next to a relative in the countryside, was the Liang family's child daughter-in-law.

"Really. You can't do it, Aunt Yang! The little daughter-in-law of the Yang family affirmed.

"Aunt Yang, I'll go first......" Li Xin didn't finish speaking, he had already spread his legs and ran home.

Child daughter-in-law, I was born in New China and grew up under the red flag, I don't do such things. Mother, don't agree, there are still a lot of women waiting for me to rescue them? Forget about child daughters-in-law...... Li Xin said secretly as he ran.

"Your cow ......," the little daughter-in-law of the Yang family shouted from behind.

The only thing that answered her was Li Xin's distant back......