With Lao Gui as a tour guide, we don't have to worry about the next trip at all.

After getting off the boat, Lao Gui led us to Guazhou Town to hire a tricycle, the broken tricycle was full of us and luggage, piled high, thanks to this walk is a mountain road, the king of heaven Lao Tzu can not care, otherwise it will definitely have to be dealt with as a serious overload.

The car swayed and bumped all the way into the mountain, and the steeper I walked, the more upright the mountain became, and the trees became more and more lush, which gradually gave me the illusion that we were not rushing to the mountain village, but were heading towards the primeval forest.

This delusion is a little unsettling, plus we don't know Lao Gui well, and we hired it halfway, if something goes wrong, it will really not be good, but with the doctor here, it shouldn't be dangerous.

Although I have known Lao Guigang for no more than four hours, we have a deep understanding of this guy's shrewdness, and it turns out that a shrewd person must also be a sleek person. Lao Gui saw my worries at a glance, and explained to us intentionally or unintentionally, saying that this road is a little remote, but there is no way, the location of Toast Tai is too desolate, and people who have been there think that it should be the only trace that goes deepest into the 100,000 mountains, there is no one, let us take care of it, and when we get to Toast, he must have good wine and food to entertain us.

Lao Gui said so, my heart was a little calm, but I don't know when this long bumpy dirt road will come to an end, and I am extremely bored, so I asked Lao Gui if there is anything to say about this toast?

Lao Gui scratched his head, he didn't seem to know what to say, and said with some embarrassment: "Oh, I don't know, I haven't heard the old man talk about it, since I can remember, people have been calling it that, and no one has thought about this problem, I don't know, I don't know!" ”

The doctor smiled at this time, took Lao Gui's words, and said, "Before coming here, I checked some relevant information, although the content is very small, there are some records related to toast. ”

"Oh? What is the record? The doctor's words aroused my curiosity, and Lao Gui, as a toaster, was naturally very interested, so they all looked at the doctor and waited for his next words.

If this is changed to a Taoist priest, he will definitely have to pretend to be a fool of the day, I don't ask him he will definitely not say, but the doctor is not the kind of person who likes to sell guanzi, and immediately said: "The so-called Tusi, which began in the Yuan Dynasty, is a hereditary official position granted by feudal power to the leaders of ethnic minorities in the northwest and southwest regions. It is reported that Tusi Tai was originally placed in the Ming Dynasty, and it was the most desolate Tusi Mansion in the Qiangui area at that time, because it was too remote, and there were not many people under its jurisdiction, it was abandoned not long after, and it was not restored until the Manchu Qing Dynasty unified the world. ”

"However, it didn't take long for the toast sent by the government to mysteriously disappear due to the fish demon cannibalism incident, and then several successive toasts all suffered the same thing, so that no one dared to come here as an official again, and the Qing court took the aborigines of Toast Tai as the toast, and the matter ended."

As for why it is called "Tusi Tai", not Tusi Tai, it is because of the inconvenient transportation, the local residents rarely contact the outside world, and it is even more impossible to read, and after a long time, there are fewer and fewer literate people, and then only the sound name remains, and the writing error when recording the gazetteer has become today's writing, but it sounds the same name. ”

I'm a little stunned, shouldn't this kind of place full of legends have a tortuous origin? Just because of a clerical error, this... That's too sloppy, isn't it?

Unlike us, Lao Gui had never been to school, and when he heard that the name of his hometown still had these words, he was very excited, and shouted that he must tell everyone in his hometown about this when he goes back.

Time passed in our small talk, and after about two hours, I finally met the final destination of this trip: Toast Tai.

What disappointed me a little was that this toast was very ordinary, similar to my hometown, a standard small village, but there were also surprises, the village was surrounded by mountains on three sides, on an extremely gentle slope, and the remaining side turned out to be a large river pond water, not large, gourd-shaped, the gourd mouth of the place stretched into the lush deep mountains, and the other end flowed through a ditch outside the village to the outside world, into the Daxu River outside Guazhou Town.

There was nothing special about the village, but the water next to the village caught my eye, and I immediately thought of the black drawing that looked like a nightmare demon lake, but no matter how I changed the angle, I could not overlap the outline of the drawing with the gourd-shaped water in front of me.

"What's going on? Could it be that my previous guess was wrong? I muttered to myself.

The tricycle stopped outside the mountain village, we got off here, all the way to see the water, Lao Gui saw this, and thought that we were interested in the water, immediately shook the spirit, adhering to his duty as a tour guide, to introduce us to this pool of water.

"Haha, this is my hometown, toast, you see this puddle, we call it the water gourd, there are several kinds of fatty wild fish in it, don't look at its small area, half of our village depends on it to feed!"

I asked, "Are there any other puddles or bigger lakes around here besides the water gourds?" ”

Lao Gui looked at me strangely and shook his head, "No, I grew up in this area, if you want to say a bigger puddle, just count it, and nothing else." ”

Seeing that I was depressed, as if I was worried that we would leave, Lao Gui hurriedly continued: "Three bosses, don't be discouraged, you are looking for the big lake is nothing more than for winter fishing, don't hide it from you, there are many wild fish in this puddle in front of you, these two days are the season when the water is beautiful and the fish are fat, you just came, in a few days, the village will have to organize the net, you want to fish, this is definitely the best location." ”

Looking at Lao Gui's nervous appearance, the three of us looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and I said to him: "Don't worry, we still have to stay here for a while, and we won't leave, so if you help us arrange accommodation and food, the money we should give will only be more, not less." ”

Hearing me say this, Lao Gui was immediately overjoyed: "Ouch, that's really good, don't worry, the three bosses, I will definitely arrange it for you." ”

We did not stay any longer, and entered the village under the leadership of Lao Gui.

Lao Gui arranged our residence in his house, the house is the old-fashioned dry stilt wooden house, look at the material has been some years, antique, we only think it is out to travel.

After arranging the accommodation, the time was not early, Lao Gui went to Zhang Luo for dinner, before leaving, I told him that if there were other outsiders in the village, he must inform me as soon as possible, although Lao Gui was strange, but he didn't say anything, and left after agreeing.