The moon is full of frost and the sky is full of frost,

The long bridge lies silently in front of the river.

The water and mountains are endless,

Pick up a painting note from the cloud building.

This poem was written by Pan Zuwang in the ancient town of Phoenix in Xiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, depicting the drunken scene of "moon, bridge, water and building" with Xiangxi characteristics after the ancient town goes into night. At that time, the town was full of aborigines, doing some small business along the street by the water, the folk customs were simple and quiet, and nine out of ten foreign tourists who came here were literati and ink writers, and it was easy to rub out the spark of inspiration with this ancient town of Xiangxi, with the Tang and Song dynasties as the most, Li Bai, Du Fu, Liu Zongyuan and other celebrities have left poems.

Now the ancient town of Phoenix is very different from the ancient times, the entry of commercial marketization, the aborigines have become more and more scarce, the "long bridge silence" has been replaced by the ancient town of the night, and the "water and mountains" are not as dazzling as the neon lights.

Nowadays, it is more appropriate to call it Phoenix Ancient Town, but it is better to call it Phoenix New Town.

Although there are some regrets, but fortunately, there are only one or two ancient towns in Xiangxi? The rolling mountain peaks, endless streams and rivers, and the inconvenient transportation make the depths of Xiangxi one of the few original natural areas in China. As far as the eye can see, the ancient villages and ancient towns in the depths of the dense forest are paved with bluestone slabs, and the unique stilted buildings of the Miao and Tujia people are all over the mountains.

At that time, Wang Tinggui of the Song Dynasty came to the hinterland of Xiangxi, and he couldn't help but feel:

The spring water of Luxi wants to level the embankment, and the path is covered with basil bamboo.

The hall is quiet and dust-free, and there is medicine and seedling fertilizer.

Jun Xun Ganlu Peak lives in front of it, and people are like mountains and snow returning at night.

The rivers and seas should not end lonely, and the crane book will go down to fish Huangji.

For more than 1,000 years, the Luxi area mentioned in the article has not changed significantly, it is the place where the Yuanjiang River and Wushui meet, the terrain is gentler than the surrounding area, and the livable environment by the mountains and rivers is naturally an ideal place to settle down, and the reason for not over-development makes the folk customs here are also very simple.

"Look—"

In a dense forest in the northwest of Luxi County and west of Yuanling County, a "big bird" with brown and white body feathers, bright red face, and a feather tail longer than its body poked its head out of the grass.

"Brother Bai—"

I saw that the person who spoke was a young woman in her early twenties, wearing denim hot pants under a white tight short sleeve - the figure was very peugeot, and the woman was pointing in the direction of the grass that the "big bird" was burrowing into and said unhappily: "The pheasant has run away!" ”

"That's not a pheasant."

A man in his thirties turned from behind the woman, apparently the "white brother" in the woman's mouth, and only heard him say: "That's a protected animal-white-necked long-tailed pheasant." ”

"Brother Bai, how do you know so much?!" The woman's eyes were full of adoration.

"I know more about other things...... the man whispered softly close to the woman's ear.

After finishing speaking, the woman's face was red, and she lowered her head and pulled her sleeves, but where could she hide the puff on her face?

"...... Tonight"

"Brother Bai—"

A figure flashed next to the bush, and when he saw the two of them, he beckoned: "Sister Zhao is looking for you!" Seeing someone coming, the two hurriedly took two steps back to keep their distance, and Brother Bai waved his hand very unhappily and responded: "Okay, go over immediately." ”

Not far from the forest, there were more than a dozen people gathered by the stream, basically young people in their twenties, led by a slightly older woman, who ran over and held her arm when she saw "Brother Bai" coming back and said, "Don't say a word where you go, make me worried." Then he put a string of freshly braided straw bracelets on Brother Bai's wrist and looked at it, looking very satisfied.

"Why did she follow you?" When he saw the young woman, there was obviously a trace of displeasure on his face and asked Brother Bai, "Why did she follow you?" ”

"If you want to say that you don't have a sense of teamwork when you go out, you don't know if you lose anyone, if I don't see a few people, I'm afraid Xiaoxu won't be able to find it back." Brother Bai complained righteously.

"Yes——?" The woman looked at the two suspiciously.

"Sister Zhao, you should go over there."

One of the team held a copy of the map and shouted in the direction of the stream.

"Let's go—the sun will go down in no time, and there's a town ahead."

Sister Zhao glanced at the young woman named "Xiaoxu" and reminded: "Keep up, don't fall behind this time, you don't even know the way, how can this brain survive the probation period?" ”

"Yes, Sister Zhao, definitely pay attention."

Xiao Xu didn't dare to raise his head and hurriedly answered, turned around and ran towards the army.

"You see that you scared the little girl, and it has something to do with the probationary period?"

"What? I said you're not happy with her? "What's the point? I'm just talking about things. ”

"Just two jokes are so atmospheric, hum-"

The woman threw Brother Bai's arm away and left directly, Brother Bai shouted a few times but did not respond, scolded a few words and looked at the mountains and forests on both sides of the stream.

"This scenery is really good, if you ...... with Xiaoxu in this forest" Brother Bai pinched his chin as if imagining something, and finally couldn't help laughing, but then thought about it: "It's really troublesome to have this sticky tigress here." In the end, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he picked up a stone and threw it at the other side.

Brother Bai let out a "huh", only to see that in the grass where the stone rolled down, a ...... appeared

Human legs!

"There shouldn't be dead people in this barren mountain and wilderness, right?"

Brother Bai couldn't help but gasp when he thought about it, and looked at the large army that had already gone away, but he couldn't help but see what the situation was with that leg - what if it was a scarecrow doll or a costume with a wooden stick to dry and fall?

Thinking like this, Brother Bai stepped on the bluestone in the stream, and the surrounding temperature was obviously lower than just now, Brother Bai rubbed his hands and took out his mobile phone to probe through the light, only to see that the leg was wearing a pair of blue pants with embroidered patterns at the bottom, and his feet were full of mud.

At this moment, Brother Bai obviously slowed down, although he was classified as an atheist, the various supernatural events in Xiangxi that he had seen before were very picturesque.

"Rustle—"

There was a sudden sound in the bush, and Brother Bai stumbled and fell backwards in shock. I tried to turn around and run with my hands propped up, but my legs trembled so much that I couldn't get up.

With a "rub", a black shadow jumped out of the grass, and Brother Bai screamed and almost fainted, but the black shadow twisted and walked away.

"It turned out to be a broken snake."

Brother Bai muttered to himself, he was really shocked into a cold sweat just now, but his courage seemed to have grown a little. He stepped up very lightly, and then went straight to the grass, picked up a long branch from the ground, and reached out to pick up the blade of grass that was more than half a man tall in a lunge posture.

The shield gradually dispersed, and gradually looked along the leg, and Brother Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief. I saw a petite and handsome woman with her eyes closed and leaning back in the grass.

The woman's clothes and pants are all blue and blue, the cuffs are wide, the edges of the clothes are embroidered with countless colors, a white trouser belt is tied around the waist, the head is wrapped in a green scarf in a herringbone, and a linen braid is thrown out of the towel, and the neck and wrists are full of silver jewelry—at first glance, it is a local minority woman.

Brother Bai looked at the delicate body, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, threw the branch to the side, and slowly stretched out his hand.

The wheezing in the air grew thicker......

"Hmm...... Hmmm......"

Just as it was about to touch, a faint voice came out of the woman's mouth, and Brother Bai hurriedly withdrew his arm, only to find that the woman's lips were a little blue and purple, which was definitely not normal.