Professor Han told us that their saint had already told us that we were distinguished guests from afar, and that their leader would come and visit us in person.

When we heard this, we were all a little confused, why did we still have a saint? Professor Han said that this is what they meant, maybe there is a difference in the title, but according to what he understood the meaning, it was the Holy Maiden.

It is strange for us to think that this place is completely isolated from the rest of the world and is still in an ancient social system.

While waiting, Professor Han told us some of the information he had just received from the strong man with the sword.

First of all, this Miao village is not the three Miao Xianzhai we are looking for, but a village called Xianmiao Secret Village, which is composed of four villages, along the mountainside of the old Wu Mountain, that is, the mountain range where Miao Village is entrenched, we are now located near the village gate, and there is still some distance from the real Miao Village.

Secondly, because of its isolation, Miao Village still continues the ancient rights system. In addition, because the people here believe in gods and worship totems, the power of Miao Village is also linked to divine power, and there are three people in power, namely the Witch King, the Gu King, and the Miao King.

The three kings are all superficial rulers, Miao Zhai believes in the strong and respects, and the actual leader has been changing, and the current leader is the Gu King.

Finally, and most importantly, although the Miao people of Guzhai are not xenophobic, they also do not like strangers unless they can win their absolute trust. Therefore, Professor Han repeatedly told us to be careful and not to commit the taboo of Miao Min.

After listening to Professor Han's words, I felt extremely disappointed, and others were also a little discouraged, but Professor Han told us not to be discouraged, saying that it might be a mistake in his translation, after all, it is difficult to translate a specific place name accurately, and it is also possible that the previous name has changed, so it may be different from now.

When we heard it, we thought it made a lot of sense, and we felt a little better.

At about nine o'clock, there was movement downstairs, and all of us were in a state of shock and looked down through the window.

Outside the door, I saw a number of more people dressed in characteristic costumes, the first of which was a middle-aged man, forty or fifty years old, with a majestic face, a tall figure, and his body was more ornate than the others, followed by a group of stout young men who were also wearing swords, and beside him was the girl I had seen in the cabin yesterday who looked exactly like Loy.

At this time, she changed into a dress, tied her hair in a bun, and was covered with dazzling silver jewelry, which set off her already beautiful face more brightly, giving people a very amazing feeling.

Lin Qiao'er, Taoist priest and other people who had seen Luo Yi were also stunned at this time, although I had already mentioned to them that there was a girl who looked exactly like Luo Yi, but when they really saw it, they were still shocked enough.

The Taoist priest simply exclaimed: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this is too fucking similar!" It's just carved out of a mold, they should be long-lost twin sisters, right? ”

The Taoist priest's words were purely unintentional, but after hearing them, my heart moved. Luo Yi said that when she was a child, she lived in a very remote and closed Miao Village, and later after an accident, she was washed away by the river to the outside world, and was adopted by her current parents.

Just as I was thinking, the people downstairs had already gone upstairs, Professor Han and the rest of the people were already waiting on the side, and the middle-aged man who was suspected of being a Gu King immediately showed a very kind smile as soon as he saw us.

He didn't know that Professor Han could speak their language, so he made a gesture of welcome, and Professor Han immediately greeted him politely, and he was very surprised to hear that one of us could actually speak their words, and then spoke to Professor Han in a surprised tone.

As soon as these two people talked about it, they seemed to have known each other for many years, and they were very enthusiastic, but we couldn't understand anything, so we could only watch from the side in confusion.

At this time, the girl next to the middle-aged man looked at us with a slightly curious gaze, looked at everyone once, and finally stopped on me.

She kept staring at me with a very strange look in her eyes, and just when I was uncomfortable with her, she suddenly spoke, and she said it to me.

I looked confused, and at this time, Professor Han looked at me and translated, "She asked you what your name is!"

I felt very strange and awkward, so Professor Han introduced us all in their words, and then the middle-aged man also pointed to himself and said something to the girl next to him.

Professor Han translated for us, saying that the middle-aged man was the leader of the Xianmiao Secret Village, Gu Wang Qi Lai, and the one next to him was the current saint chosen by the gods, and also his daughter, Qi Mirou. Gu Wang said that this is their real name, many years ago, their ancestors also came into contact with outsiders like us and were affected by some influences, so a few of them also have Chinese names.

Among them, the status of the Gu King family is not ordinary, so he also has a Chinese name, called Luo Lai, and her daughter is called Luo Rou.

Hearing this, a few of us who knew Luo Yi almost jumped up, Luo Lai, Luo Rou, Luo Yi, how could there be such a coincidence in this world?

Seeing that we reacted so much after hearing each other's names, Professor Han and his students were a little surprised, and even Gu King Luo Lai and Luo Yi looked at us strangely.

The doctor didn't know Luo Yi's background, and although he was shocked at this time, he didn't lose his cool and said to Professor Han: "Professor, will your translated name be biased?" ”

When Professor Han heard that the doctor actually questioned him, he immediately said with some unhappiness: "This is impossible, the surname Qi is still used in the Miao village in the outside world, as for the Chinese name, it is even more impossible to make a mistake, the word Luo is not common, it is not a word that is easy to confuse, and the following names are their real names, but the surnames are different, and they will never make mistakes." ”

Seeing that Professor Han said so firmly, we immediately looked at each other, and the doubts in our hearts almost turned into affirmations.

Professor Han also noticed something strange at this time, and hurriedly said to us: "Don't ask yet, no matter what it is, let's put it down first, the Gu King has solemnly invited us to be guests just now, don't let people wait!" I'll talk about it later! ”

Hearing this, we had to temporarily suppress all the doubts in our hearts, and then Professor Han said a few more words to the Gu King with a smile on his face, and the doubt on the Gu King's face subsided, and then he laughed heartily, pulled Professor Han up and walked downstairs.

Seeing that Professor Han and the Gu King had already gone downstairs, and the Holy Maiden Luo Rou on the side had no intention of leaving, although we were strange, we immediately followed.

Out of curiosity about Luo Rou, we deliberately let the pilot and Professor Han's group of students walk in front, and I fell last, and when I also started to move, Luo Rou smiled quietly and followed behind me.

As I walked down, I peeked back, but I wasn't the only one doing this, Taoist priests, Lin Qiao'er, and even doctors pretended to look at the wood ornaments and took the opportunity to look behind. Since she was right behind me, when I peeked at her, she was looking at me with a smile on her face, and I felt empty, and the Taoist priest in front of me suddenly stopped, and I bumped into him, and my feet slipped and fell out of the stairs with an oops.

At this moment, a white and slender jade hand grabbed me, I looked back, just saw Luo Rou covering her lips and chuckling, my heart was even more embarrassed, I hurriedly stabilized my body, and she also let go of my hand.

This time, I was really embarrassed to peek at people again, so I walked quickly with my head covered, and when I got downstairs, I saw that the door was full of young people with swords, all of them in their early twenties and thirties, dressed in navy green seedling suits, and wearing long or short Miao knives on their waists.

It needs to be explained here that this Miao knife is not the other Miao knife, under normal circumstances, we are talking about the Miao knife, which refers to the development of the Tang knife on the basis of the long knife and the Ming Dynasty's imitation of the Japanese Imperial Forest Saber, because of its slender blade and similar to He Miao, so it is named Miao knife, which has nothing to do with the Miao people, but is a pure Han weapon.

The Miao knife mentioned here refers to the ancient knife of the Miao people.

It is rumored that the ancient Miao knife was developed from the weapon used by the ancestor Chiyou, the soldier of Chiyou, it is said that it was one of the ten famous knives in ancient mythology, because it was defeated by the Xuanyuan sword of the Yellow Emperor in the battle of the deer, so later generations are respected by the sword, and the soldiers of Chiyou have also been inherited by the people of the ancestors, and then developed into the current ancient Miao knife.

Of course, because the people of the ancestors lived a life of indisputability all year round and had little contact with the outside world, the forging method of the ancient Miao knife can also be called the most ancient forging technique.

The forging method of Gu Miao knife is very complicated, and it takes a long time to forge, and the forging is expensive.

First of all, the materials used in forging knives, taking the Yunnan and Guizhou regions as an example, according to the records of "Qianzhou Tongzhi - Tumin Zhi": "The sharp blade used by the nine seedlings is called the double-ring knife...... The method of making blades, when the son is born, each family sends a piece of iron, the craftsman makes a rough sample, buries it in the mud ditch, takes it out and smelts it once a year, and becomes a blade at the age of sixteen. ”

Combined with the rumors, it probably means that whenever a boy is born in the Miao people, his in-laws will send a piece of fine iron, and then ask someone to forge it into a rough billet, and then bury it on the mountain with a hundred herbs, and then every year on the boy's birthday, the knife blank will be taken out for forging, and the forging will take out for 16 years to succeed.

This is equivalent to Miao Min's knife, etc., if his life, from the day he was born to accompany him to the day of his death.

Nowadays, there are few such customs in those Miao villages in the outside world, mainly because the impact of social development and changes is too great, and the cost of forging an ancient Miao knife is too high, neither economical nor affordable, no matter how sharp this ancient Miao knife is, no one is willing to spend so much experience to forge.

But the Xianmiao Secret Village we are in at the moment is different, this place is located in the deepest part of Shennongjia, and there is the mysterious illusion mountain range to block it, unless we find relevant clues like us, and there are tools for positioning, it is impossible to find this.

That is to say, this ancestral Miao secret village has almost no connection with the outside world, and this situation has lasted for I don't know how many years, so they still maintain the most primitive customs, which is why these young people in front of us are all wearing ancient Miao knives.

Out of the door, we found that the bluestone road outside the door has been prepared more than a dozen horses, and some ancient wooden carts, whether they are horses or wooden carts, they are decorated with cloth embroidered with beautiful patterns, they invited us on the horse, those who can't ride horses take the wooden cart, and then under their leadership, walk along the bluestone road.

Although Professor Han is old, but his body is very tough, he feels even better than those of his students, he is the elder among us, and he is the only one who understands the ancient Miao language, so he rode a horse and walked in front with the Gu King, passing many people along the way, the Miao people were both curious and enthusiastic, and kept greeting us, but unfortunately only Professor Han could understand, we could only follow Professor Han to respond to some syllables that we didn't understand at all.

Finally arrived at the place, after we dismounted, the Gu King welcomed us into a very atmospheric composite wooden building, surrounded by houses, in the middle of which was a circular field, and the top of the head was sealed, forming a very wide hall, in which tables had been set up, and sumptuous dishes had been served.

There were a total of five tables around, and in addition to us, there were many Miao people who had already arrived, men, women and children. As soon as we entered, they saluted us, and we did not know how to return the salute, so we could only salute them according to the gourd and the scoop.

King Miao laughed, warmly invited us to sit down, during the period of pushing the cup to change the lamp I will not go into detail, in short, we didn't understand a word, the whole process only Professor Han was talking to the people around him, we were drinking vigorously, not drinking, Miao Min is too enthusiastic, and we don't move the customs here, just in case, we can only come and not refuse, even if we don't know what they are talking about.

For the first time, I felt that the time was so long, and soon, Professor Han's two students, Li Xingxiu and Zhang Xueyi, both drank down, Zhong Limu and Han Die drank a little less because they were girls, but at this time, the little face was also red and fluttering, and a few of us, except for the freak of the doctor, also began to get a little dizzy, and in the end, somehow, I got drunk, and I didn't know what to do.

I don't know how long it took, but I woke up with a dizziness and a little unconscious, and I found myself in a dimly lit room, and a girl next to the bed was looking at me with a smile.

I was startled at first, sat up abruptly, and shrank back at the same time, and then I realized that the girl next to the bed was the witch Ling Rou.

I was a little surprised, and subconsciously looked around, only to see that the furnishings around me were very unfamiliar, and this was not the stilted building we were in before.

Just when I was full of doubts in my heart, Luo Rou chuckled and said, "Don't worry, you're drunk, Abba asked me to send you here to rest!" ”

Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and also remembered the previous drinking, and was about to ask her where the others were, when suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed through my mind, I looked at Luo Rou in horror, and exclaimed incredibly: "You...... Do you speak Chinese? ”