As I walked, I surveyed the terrain, which was in a valley, not as steep as the previous one, but still surrounded by mountains.

The road was full of weeds, and the fog in the valley made the road slippery under our feet, and the mountain road was very steep, almost all of them were above 30 degrees, and even I had a hard time walking on the road.

It didn't take long for me to climb and I noticed that the visibility in the fog was starting to get lower, and standing on this side of the hill, I could barely see the other side.

I thought to myself, if this Miao village is really on this, it will still meet my expectations.

Finally, we climbed halfway up the mountain, and the trail came to an end, and there were no more forks.

"Grandpa Chen, where should I go now?" I looked at the mountains of cedar trees and asked Chen Fangyuan.

The old man propped himself on his knees and gasped for a long time, and finally shook his head and said breathlessly:

"Next, I don't know about the next one, yes, you have to find it yourself!"

"No, Grandpa Chen, no matter how you find here, it's impossible to end here, isn't there any mark? The general orientation is also fine! ”

The old man finally took a breath, walked up to me, and said:

"Sanzhang cedar tree, Xunwei northeast!"

I thought to myself, why is this mouth so similar to my pinching fingers to find things, could it be that this old man pinched his fingers to find here?

So I did what he told me and counted it with my right hand.

This sentence is very easy to understand, first there is a reference, that is, the three-zhang cedar tree, and then there is the direction, the northeast direction of the Xun position.

But this mountain is full of cedar trees, and you can see them everywhere above three feet, so how do I know which one we are looking for!

"Grandpa Chen, there are three-zhang cedar trees everywhere, which one is it?" I asked.

Chen Fangyuan looked around us, and it seemed that he didn't have a clue.

"I said it's up to us to find it, I'm just a clue, if I know which one it is, won't I tell you directly?" Chen Fangyuan was a little annoyed.

At this time, Qiu Yan stepped forward and said:

"Grandpa Chen, don't worry, could it be that your clues refer to hundreds of years ago, maybe these cedar trees hadn't grown tall at that time!"

The old man nodded, and said in response:

"It's possible!"

Seeing Chen Fangyuan say it so easily, I was also a little annoyed, according to this, the little tree back then grew up and couldn't be found, so don't we have to look for it?

But the old man changed his words at this time, and said:

"However, since this sentence can be used as a clue, then this tree must not be an ordinary tree, it must be different from the surrounding trees in some way, but now these grown trees have blocked this tree."

When I heard this, I clapped my hands and said to the crowd:

"What are you doing in a daze? Find it! ”

With that, I took off my backpack and walked into the woods.

Many TV shows that the primeval jungles of Southeast Asia are dangerous, and the primeval forests of the Amazon are dangerous, but they don't say that the forests in general are also dangerous, especially the forests with towering trees.

Often standing outside the forest, you will feel that the forest is not very big, it looks only a few dozen miles, and you think that you can walk out of the forest in half a day.

In fact, as soon as you enter the forest, you lose your reference, and when you go deeper into the forest and you don't have a pointing device, you can't tell the way, and your vision in the forest is very limited, which makes you panic, so you probably never get out of the forest.

Therefore, many tourists will get lost in the mountains, and some even lose their lives because of this, and there is a reason for this.

Although we carried a compass and Qiu Yan had a satellite phone, before entering the forest, I told them to make sure to mark it along the way, so as not to find it after entering the forest.

The fog in the forest was even bigger than outside, and there was a smell of rotting leaves, and after a few moments of searching, I became wet and smelly.

But in spite of this, I could not find the three-zhang cedar tree: all the trees in this forest looked the same, and I could not tell the height of the trees in the forest.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a very thick tree not far ahead, and when I looked closer, I found that this tree was about a meter thick, and its roots were swirling around it, and it occupied an area almost the size of a house.

I looked up and saw that about twenty meters up the trunk of the tree there was no main trunk, but several branches growing beside it, but even though they were branches, each one as thick as my thigh.

I instinctively felt that this was the "Sanzhang Fir Tree", so I shouted and called Qiu Yan and the others over.

Chen Fangyuan raised his head and circled around the big tree, then nodded and said:

"Yes, it should be it!"

Suddenly, Qiu Yan, who had been groping back and forth around the tree trunk, called out:

"He Zimu, come and see, what is this?"

I ran over to take a look, and I saw Qiu Yan's hand touching a bulge in the trunk of the tree.

I took a closer look and found that it was not only the place where Qiu Yan was touching, but also the bulge around it.

Originally, I didn't think it was a big deal, but when I followed the lines, I realized that they weren't just ordinary nodules, but a picture.

I took out the dagger, carved it along the line, and the picture appeared.

When we saw this picture clearly, Qiu Yan and I were so shocked that we couldn't speak.

The painting is a human face, very abstract, but it is all too familiar to me, Qiu Yan, and even Long Quan.

Chiyou! It's Chiyou again!

Although Qiu Yan said before that Chiyou is the ancestor of Jiuli, for the Miao and Tujia people, Chiyou are both ancestors, but it is too coincidental that the same face appears more than 100 kilometers away!

At this time, Chen Fangyuan walked over, he patted me and Qiu Yan on the shoulder, and said with a smile:

"It seems that this is not the first time you have seen this totem, and now you should know that I am not talking nonsense!"

After Chen Fangyuan finished speaking, he turned around, and while muttering "Xunwei Northeast" in his mouth, he pinched and counted with his hands.

After a while, Chen Fangyuan pointed to the side of the big tree and said:

"Over there!"

After saying that, he took the lead and walked over.

Qiu Yan and I looked at each other with our mouths open for a while, and then followed.

After following Chen Fangyuan for more than half an hour, we came to a weedy bush, which was more than a person tall and mixed with some thorny vines.

I jumped up and looked at it and saw that the weeds were full of large rocks, and it didn't look like there was a road at all.

"Grandpa Chen, this is the wrong way!" I asked.

The old man raised his right hand and pinched it twice, shook his head and said:

"That's right, Xun's northeast, we haven't deviated from the direction."

I pointed to the weeds and said:

"This is obviously no way, if we take a detour, won't it be the northeast of Xun?"

Without waiting for the old man to answer, Qiu Yan pulled out the mountain knife behind her back and said to me:

"If there is a way to go in and see, you will know."

After speaking, Qiu Yan brandished the mountain opening knife and walked into the weeds.

I smiled helplessly, took back the dagger, and then also pulled out the mountain knife and grabbed in front of Qiu Yan.

In fact, I was also calculating along the way, I knew that Chen Fangyuan did not lead the wrong way, but I didn't want to be led by his nose like this.

Sure enough, after Qiu Yan and I cut out a clearing, we found that there was a piece of land under our feet that was obviously different from the next one, the soil here was more compact, and there was no other debris except weeds.

Seeing this, I cut forward for a while, and when I looked back after the cut, I noticed a path about a meter wide under my feet.

I looked at Chen Fangyuan and saw that he was smiling proudly.

I sneered at him, then turned around and continued on the road.

In this way, Qiu Yan and I drove one after the other, and it didn't take long to find a clearing.

It's an open space, but it's actually a hillside overgrown with weeds and shrubs, but the slope here is much smaller, and the weeds are nowhere deeper.

The clearing, which stretched out against the mountain, was like someone had cut a gap in the hillside with a great axe, and there were several ditches in the clearing, in which the crystal clear water flowed down the mountain, and I thought to myself that if I were to build a stockade, this would be a good place to be.

I unloaded my backpack, set it aside, and walked to the edge of the clearing, where I realized that we had crawled out of the mist, which was now at the foot of the mountain, and made me feel like I was in a fairyland.

After taking a breath, I looked back and saw that the clearing had followed the mountain into a col, and then extended from the other side of the col, and above the mountain, there were several layers of such clearing, like terraces.

"Looks like this is it!" Chen Fangyuan stretched his waist towards the foot of the mountain, then turned around and said.

Qiu Yan inserted the mountain knife behind her, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and said with a smile:

"Or the ancients will enjoy it, living in such a fairyland on earth, it's so beautiful!"

Long Quan was holding his wooden stick at this time, smiled disdainfully, and said:

"Mr. Qiu, you have never suffered hardship, people chose to live in this kind of place, mostly to avoid disputes, like this village, although we now see the environment is very beautiful, but the transportation is inconvenient, the farming conditions are very harsh, most people have lived here all their lives, never seen the outside world, and have never even been out of this mountain, for them, this is not a fairyland on earth, at most a refuge."

I smiled at Long Quan and asked:

"Long Quan, should you return to Miao Village, evoke some bad memories for you?"

Long Quan seemed to have been immersed in his thoughts, and he woke up when I called him.

"It's nothing, I'm just thinking of my ancestors, they just lived in the mountains all their lives, and the changes outside are a matter of another world for them."

Seeing Long Quan's somewhat sad expression, I couldn't bear to continue to ridicule, so I ordered:

"It's not early, let's set up the tent first, rest for the night today, and talk about the rest tomorrow."

So, we chose a drier place to camp and set up a tent to cook.

It was still very cold at night in the mountains, so we went around to find dry firewood, burned the bonfire, and then chatted for a while, and then rested.

I slept until midnight and suddenly woke up from freezing, this sleeping bag is like this, the surroundings are very warm, but the feet are very thin, and it is cold and cold without a little padding.

I got out of the tent, got a piece of clothing and stuffed it in, and then walked out of the tent to get some firewood to the campfire.

I rubbed my eyes, and after making sure it wasn't my own eyes, I wanted to wake up the others.

Who knew that I opened the tent closest to me and found that there was no one in it at all, I was stunned and thought about it, only to remember that it was Chen Fangyuan who was sleeping in this tent!