Yan Xiaoying heard it and said curiously: "In this way, you must think that the mountain god Niangniang will be with you because of the life you borrowed, right?" ”

"I thought so at first, and I even questioned her about it."

I sighed, looking a little lonely, and said, "But then I figured it out, no matter whose life I borrowed, I am still myself." And Jingmei, in order to marry me, suffered from thunder punishment, and now she doesn't know her life and death, how can I break her heart again? ”

"Haven't you looked for her since you got married?" Yan Xiaoying asked me.

"I looked for it, but she didn't respond, and I'm worried about what happened to her now."

"I think a smart woman like the mountain god Niangniang, she must have a purpose in doing this, maybe she wants to use the thunder punishment to wash away her yin spirit qi and regain her life." Yan Xiaoying said suddenly.

"Is it possible?" I asked.

"I don't know, but ...... At her level, supernatural spells are not something people like us can guess. ”

"Yes, compared to her, it's like a god in the sky and a mortal in the ground, which always makes people feel inferior and powerless."

"It's good that you have this kind of thought, at least you are eager to improve your strength, and you haven't slumped." Yan Xiaoying comforted me.

"Thank you......"

The next morning, I was woken up by the loud sound of gongs, and when I opened my eyes, I found that Yan Xiaoying was not by my side and had already gotten up.

After washing, Gan Lan came back and informed me, "Sister Yan asked you to prepare, it's time to go into the mountain." ”

"Where is she?" I asked.

"She's waiting for you at the entrance of the village, and our hunting brigade is also ready to enter the mountain, so I'll go with you." Gan Lan said excitedly.

"Do you know how to hunt?"

"Of course, our Tujia people, both men and women, are all good hunters, and with the protection of the hunting god, we will definitely be able to return with a full load this time." Gan Lan straightened her chest and said proudly.

"Your Tujia people have already been in contact with the outside world, and this hunting meeting is just a religious activity and ceremony, so you don't have to take it so seriously, right?" I laughed.

"You don't understand, the god hunting is the belief of our Tujia children, even if we live well, this belief will not change." Gan Lan said, and went into her room to get ready to go.

Yan Xiaoying and I stayed at her house last night, and no one in her family was there at this time, so it was estimated that they all gathered in the ancestral hall on the mountain behind the village.

After a while, Gan Lan came out of the room, and I couldn't help but look at her and my eyes lit up.

She changed her clothes, wrapped in mink, tight leather trousers, carrying a quiver behind her, and holding a black wood carved bow in her hand, which at first glance tasted of encountering a wild man in the mountains.

Gan Lan said that it was the first time for her to participate in such a big hunting event when she was so big, and she must behave well this time.

When we came to the entrance of the village, we found that Yan Xiaoying was also dressed exactly like Ganlan, with a bow in her hand, an arrow behind her, and a green handkerchief wrapped around her head.

"Look at what? Haven't you seen anything like this? Yan Xiaoying saw that I was staring at her non-stop, and she turned around twice in front of us as if showing off, and asked, "Do you look like a Tujia person?" ”

I looked sour and asked her, "Where did you get your clothes and bow and arrows?" Why didn't I? That's unfair, isn't it? ”

Gan Lan smiled beside her and said, "The clothes I gave to Sister Yan, I'm sorry, except for my father, there are no other men's clothes in my house?" But my dad's clothes are all hand-sewn by my mother, so I don't just give them away. ”

I was speechless for a while, snatched the bow from Yan Xiaoying's hand and said, "What about this thing?" And where did it come from? ”

"Sent by the enthusiastic villagers, who told you to get drunk last night?" Yan Xiaoying gave me a blank look and snatched the bow back.

"It's really, it's not that a family doesn't enter the door, it's eccentric!" I muttered quietly, complaining in my heart.

At this time, Yan Xiaoying and Gan Lan had already chatted together, Yan Xiaoying asked Gan Lan to teach her Tujia language, and the two were close and like sisters. Hung me aside mercilessly, and couldn't interject at all.

I didn't mind, it's rare to see Yan Xiaoying so happy, since she avenged her mother and brother, I found that her personality has changed a little, and she seems to talk more than usual.

I am happy to see this, before I went to Changqingguan, I always felt that she had a layer of separation from the world, although she was playful on the surface, but her heart was not really in contact with the world.

I stood next to me and watched the two women fight, the villagers were gathering at the ancestral hall to worship, and the hunting party had not yet set off so quickly.

Because Yan Xiaoying and I are outsiders, the God Hunting Conference is a ten-year, extremely sacred day of the Tujia family, and it is held in the ancestral hall, so we did not go over to watch it, for fear of causing them to misunderstand.

Although the Tujia people are hospitable, it is not an overnight thing to truly integrate and have fun together.

When it comes to foreign tourists, their enthusiasm is just an attitude. It doesn't mean that you can really accept you, if you don't know the seriousness, be rude, and violate their taboo things or topics, they will instantly turn against you and even kill you.

This is no joke, because ethnic minorities, especially those who live in isolation deep in the mountains, have too many rules and taboos.

So before you fully understand this, it's better to keep to yourself.

When I was a student, I heard a story from my roommate about a cousin who took his girlfriend on a road trip when he was young, and the two were ready to get married after the trip.

One day, they came to a Miao village, and the villagers of Miao Village were hospitable, singing, dancing and toasting, and welcomed them very much. Seeing that the Miao people were so enthusiastic, they stayed in the village for two days.

For two days they roamed around the area of the stockade with impunity, and nothing happened at that time.

However, on the night they left the village, they suddenly felt unbearable pain in their abdomen, and hurried to a nearby hospital to check on them, where the doctor told them that there was something strange in their stomachs and that they needed surgery.

During the operation, the doctors found that many worms appeared in the abdomen of the two people, which frightened all the medical staff to change color......

The roommate said that when his cousin was playing in Miao Village, he unknowingly violated the taboo that Miao Village should not violate, so he was secretly tricked by Miao people.

Of course, this is just a story of roommates teasing each other, and when I was in college, almost every roommate had a basket of such anecdotes that I couldn't tell for ten days and ten nights.

But although it is a story, there is also a worthwhile experience in it, that is, when you go to a strange place, no matter how capable you are, you must not be too presumptuous until you are fully acquainted.

The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and the ancient precepts handed down in the past are not all unreasonable.

During the conversation between the two women, I learned from the side that the Tujia hunting team was going to hunt by the "Earth Burial Lake" this time.

It was a large lake deep in the middle of a dense forest, and it was not even shown on the map.

Ganlan told us that it was a magical lake, because in the middle of the lake there was a mysterious grassland, and no one had ever been to the mysterious grassland in the lake. But I heard from the older generation that there was once a mysterious group in that grassland, but then it was destroyed without knowing it, and their corpses and bones were everywhere under the lake.

It is precisely because of the discovery of countless corpses and bones that people call it the underground burial lake.

The nearby mountain delicacies are almost all about to be hunted, and the Tujia family is dispatching a large team this time, and if they want to hunt more prey this time, they must go to the underground burial lake.

The area, with zebras, yaks, wolves and antelopes flowing from the grasslands, was the best place for their hunting expedition.

Yan Xiaoying originally wanted to ask where the Ganlan Burial Lake was, but the latter did not know the location and route. She said that the burial lake is a place full of dangers and mysteries. In the village, only the old hunters who participated in the hunting meeting ten years ago knew the route, and they newcomers did not know it.

The older generation of hunters said that the burial lake is like a huge mouth that slowly opens, and every year it continues to erode the surrounding land, and it continues to expand magnificently, and one day it will swallow up the whole mountain and turn it into an ocean on land.

I felt funny when I heard this, after all, the Tujia people of the Secret Dao have no modern education, even if the burial lake continues to erode the surrounding land, how can it become an ocean? Unless all the glaciers on Earth melt and submerge the land.

However, even if the earth were to be submerged, there was no reason to start flooding from the inside of the mountains, so there was no need to worry about it.

What's more, life is short for a hundred years, and it is really insignificant compared to the evolution and change of the entire natural environment, and by that time, maybe I will no longer exist in the world.

This kind of worrying thing is something that only pedantic people would do.

But even though I thought so, I had a strong curiosity about the burial lake that Gan Lan was talking about, and I wanted to know what kind of lake it was. It's amazing that there is still a grassland floating in the middle of the lake.

Half an hour later, after worshipping the god of hunting, the hunting party finally set off with seven or eight hunting dogs.

There were about thirty people in the group, which was already one-fifth of the people in the entire village, and the leaders were several middle-aged people, aged between forty and sixty, and Gan Lan's father, Gan Renchu, was among them.

There were seven or eight huntress like Ganlan in the team, all of them looking heroic and ...... Belch.

Some of them were armed with forks and iron clips, some with broadswords and axes, some with longbows, and among them two iron muskets.

Yan Xiaoying and Gan Lan and I walked at the end of the line, Yan Xiaoying and I were not familiar with the road conditions, so the people of the Tujia family went first, and Gan Lan was afraid to listen to her father's verbosity, and the relationship with Yan Xiaoying was like glue, so she deliberately fell behind and stayed with us.

The team, led by several veteran hunters, marched very fast.

However, the three people we followed at the back were not in a hurry, and saw a lot of small beasts and birds on the road, so Yan Xiaoying took the opportunity to discuss archery with Gan Lan.

In this way, they chased the birds of the mountains and walked more slowly.

Thankfully, there were obvious traces left behind by the walking of the large group, otherwise I guess the three of us would have been separated.

There was no danger along the way, except for laughter and laughter.

With such a group of people, it is difficult for us to encounter danger.

After the sun went down, the hunting party stopped at a broken village, they were very familiar with the place, and after stopping they went their own way.

I wondered in my heart, deep in the mountains and forests, how could there be a lonely Zhuangzi in such a place?

Later, when he and Yan Xiaoying walked into the hall and saw more than a dozen rotten and dilapidated coffins densely placed inside, they realized that this place was Yizhuang, a place dedicated to storing corpses.