One, what is that? ”

"Haha, that's our Mu Ling's antique building. Don't worry, there are many such tree houses around Wing Mountain, we will stay in the village at night and take you on a good tour when the time comes! ”

Half an hour later, a few teenagers appeared on a hill in the distance, and when they saw the horse team galloping on the dirt road, they knocked it quickly with a copper basin, and shouted "It's coming~"

Several people immediately poured out from the side of the road, waving their hands in this direction.

Ji Yuning reined in the horse's head, and heard someone say loudly: "I am the village chief of Baixiang Village." But the lord of the castle is coming? ”

Ji Yuning galloped to the head of the team, "Village Chief Zhang, I haven't seen you for two years, how is the village?" ”

Village Chief Zhang, who is over half a hundred years old, shook his hands excitedly, took a few steps and bowed deeply, "Sure enough, it's you, the city lord still remembers Lao Zhang, we've been looking forward to you for a long time~"

After the sacrificial ceremony the year before last, Ji Yuning led a team to Yishan for autumn hunting and rested in their village.

At that time, the city lord came, the village celebrated, and the whole village was looking forward to the city lord coming again, who knows, last year's 'year of hunting beasts' only to know that the city lord settled in another village.

"I'm counting the days, you're almost coming to autumn hunting, so I'm here to wait, and the whole village is looking forward to spending the 'Year of the Beast' with you. The women and children of the village also prepared gifts for the adults, and hoped that the lord of the city would be able to come. ”

Village Chief Zhang is also a level 5 Venerable, and he is straightforward, and these words are purely from the heart.

Ji Yuning pondered for a moment before he said, "It's hard to be gracious, so I'm going to bother you again this time." ”

He had planned to take the opportunity to visit different villages and see what was to be done, but since the villagers had already prepared in advance, it was difficult to refuse.

"Good, good! I welcome the city lord and all the adults for the whole village, come to the village, and be able to celebrate the New Year with the city lord, the villagers don't know how happy they are! ”

Village Chief Zhang pushed the young man next to him violently, "Hurry up, notify everyone, and set up the long table banquet!" ”

The people dismounted and walked with the villagers into the village.

Perhaps because of the mountain, there is not much farmland here, but there are more woods, and the most special thing is the wooden houses built on the big trees that need to be surrounded by one person next to the village road.

Su Xiaoting also saw the whole picture of the tree house, which was about 4 meters above the ground and about 6 meters in diameter, with a huge volume.

At the bottom of the house are round wooden rafts arranged like bamboo rafts, and at the top are cylindrical structures around tree trunks, which also seem to be made of tree trunks, but pasted with a flat layer of plaster.

At the top, there is a dome of branches the thickness of bamboo poles, and if there is no canopy, a layer of straw is laid on top. If the shade is like a cover, straw is omitted.

There were also two windows on each treehouse, and Su Xiaoting noticed that some of the windows were still hanging under the hanging blue of lifting heavy objects.

There is a wooden door between the windows, and there is a small platform protruding from the wooden door, and the wooden ladder leads to the bottom of the tree, which is like moving the house to the tree.

There are also several sheds under each tree, and the aroma of food wafts in.

The window was now open, and a figure flashed through the window and scurried down the ladder as if it were a staircase.

After a while, I saw some women and children gather around and continue to move forward together.

Walk until you reach a circular clearing surrounded by trees and treehouses, with a tall stone house in the middle and a few low-rise shops on either side.

At this moment, there are nearly a hundred tables in the empty field, and only one entry and exit is left in each of the eight directions of the circle.

From all directions, many men carrying food boxes or stools came out, placing food on empty tables, or setting up tables and chairs.

Seeing Ji Yuning and the others, they didn't dare to come forward to talk, but they couldn't hide their joy and excitement, and they worked even harder.

"This, so many dinner tables? Eating together? Su Xiaoting said curiously.

One of them licked his lips and couldn't help laughing: "Haha, this 'Year of Hunting Beasts' is an important day for the mountain people, and it will last for 3 days!"

At this time of the year, people who rely on the mountains to eat the mountains will celebrate that they have not been attacked by fierce beasts, and that they will have a good life, and every family will gather together to take out their housekeeping skills and prepare a table of meals.

Xiaoting, let me tell you, if you go to someone's table to pick up food later, they will be happy. ”

“…… I see, it's a really interesting holiday. You're not going to tell me there's a campfire dance or something at night, are you? ”

"Oh, so you know that, too? Or your little brain is too smart, hehe, everyone eats together, how can there be less entertainment programs. As soon as he said this, he suddenly remembered that he had wanted to listen to Su Xiaoting sing for a long time.

After the group was arranged to sit on the main seat, hundreds of dining tables were already filled with dishes full of color, flavor and flavor, and the momentum was comparable to a state banquet, which was quite spectacular.

The whole village has also taken their seats at their own tables, and if you look closely, you will find that there are two seats vacant at each table.

Village Chief Zhang took the lead in raising his glass, thanked the city lord for his presence with a red face, and asked Ji Yuning to comfort the villagers before announcing the opening of the banquet.

Probably having had a previous experience, the villagers quickly let go of their restraints, took wine glasses and began to call friends all the way around the round table to taste it, and the empty space of the meal soon became lively.

Many children were still scurrying around in the open field.

Three small 'pumpkins' squatted beside the pyre not far from the main table, and one of them, a 5 or 6-year-old boy, left a crystal liquid at the corner of his mouth and muttered:

"It's a fairy, fairy sister, hey......"

Another girl of the same size chimed in: "Really! The fairy sister's skin is so white, her hair is so beautiful, her eyes are so beautiful, like, like ......"

“…… What fairy sister, I didn't hear the village chief say, is that the city lord, not a woman. "The older children came back to Shinto.

"Isn't it really a fairy? But I still want to kiss him! The little boy was a little aggrieved.

"I want to kiss too, the city lord is the most beautiful." The little girl was eager to try.

"Then I don't care, Little Bear, there's a real fairy sister there, do you want to see it?"

"Can I kiss her, then?"

……

Su Xiaoting ate a second meal with a wide variety of farmhouse meals, because she was afraid of favoring one over the other, she was not embarrassed to go to the villagers' table to taste the dishes, so she chatted with a few of them.

"Why do people here live in treehouses?" Su Xiaoting really couldn't guess the meaning.

"You ask this," Ah Tao drank a few taels of wine, and his face was puffy, but more like a young man.

"Let me tell you, back then, in the early years of the Dark Age, the ancestors still lacked the means to protect themselves.

And those cats and dogs that had no threat before, and the remaining beasts, were slowly alienated under nuclear radiation, and finally the weak ate the strong, and the beasts in the forest were mostly alienated beasts.

When they lack food, they will attack the human gathering area, and the houses at that time are difficult to resist, not to mention, once they are surrounded, it is difficult to confront them head-on, and in this way, some people began to build houses on trees.

In this way, when the beast attacks again, it can attack and retreat, and not only do you not have to worry about their surprise attack, but you can also shoot and throw stones from the tree.

It is said that hundreds of years ago, most of the people lived in such tree houses, and later there were more capable people, and with iron tools, they slowly expanded the territory of human beings and drove those fierce beasts into the mountains and forests. ”