However, since Podonha did not want to say more, I had no choice but to continue asking.

The next day, Podonha decided to go back to his hometown, and I gave one of my two shell guns to Potongha, and Potongha did not refuse.

He arched his hand and said: "Erwa, I'm not good at talking, if you need me in the future, you can just bring me a message." ”

I nodded and said, "The mountains don't turn around, you take care of each of you, and there will be more days to meet in the future." ”

Since Bo Dongha left, Lin Xia has not heard from her, and her life has returned to the way it used to be, on Tuesday Mao is listening to the drama and drinking tea, and Lan Meizai keeps the restaurant in good order, and we don't need to manage it more.

I also feel that marksmanship has always been my own shortcomings because of the previous adventure experience, during that time, I was obsessed with hunting, at first Tuesday Mao still sneered at me, but about a month later, my marksmanship is also considered to have grown rapidly, every time I take the white dragon into the mountain, I can shoot a lot of prey back, so that Tuesday Mao can't help but be impressed.

It was raining and I couldn't go up the mountain to hunt, early in the morning on Tuesday Mao went to drink tea, I thought that there was nothing to do today anyway, so I decided to flip through the book at home, after a while, Lan Meizai came over and said: "The postman sent you a letter, saying that it was sent from a far away." ”

I wondered, "What other acquaintances do I have in the distance?" ”

Lan Meizai handed me a brown paper envelope and looked at it curiously.

I tore open the envelope, and there was only one photograph inside.

When I saw the picture, I was shocked and "Ah! "Yes.

This photo should have been taken in a canyon, but in this black and white photo, there are snow-capped mountains all around, and in the middle of the flat place at the bottom of the valley, there is a tall statue of Wanqu Envoy holding the god Quetzalcoatl.

Although the photograph was very blurry at that time, and the photo was probably taken in a hurry, anyone who has seen the bronze statue can recognize the statue at a glance.

I looked through the envelope, and it only had my address on it, and the postmark was from Xikang 20 days ago, and the person who sent the letter did not leave a name.

But on the back of the photo, there is a pencil line of address: Catholic Church, 26 Zhongshan Street, Dajian Furnace.

You may not know this place, but many years later, he has a new name, Kangding, because a "Kangding Love Song" made this small Sichuan city famous all over the world.

I was in a state of complete chaos at that time, although it was very unexpected, but it was more joyful, because except for Lin Xia, I really couldn't think of anyone who would know this address of mine.

Half a year later, Lin Xia unexpectedly appeared in the Tibetan area of Sichuan.

I immediately asked someone to go to Tuesday Mao to come back to discuss the matter, Tuesday Mao came back soon, we went back to the manager's office, I told Tuesday Mao about the matter, and Tuesday Mao was also at a loss.

I finally said, "Looks like we're going to have to go on a long trip this time." ”

As soon as Mao heard that he was going out on Tuesday, he was very excited, and said: "Isn't that right, every day in this mountain, people are crazy, isn't it best to go out for a walk." ”

I said, "Why didn't Lin Xia say it directly, but sent a photo and left an address?" ”

On Tuesday, Mao said: "Could it be that Lin Xia was inconvenient to say at that time." Didn't you say that this address was a Catholic church, didn't Lin Xia want the foreign devils to know? ”

I said, "What you say has some truth in that. ”

On Tuesday, Mao said: "Then we are going to have some people in the next few days to call Bodongha?" ”

I glanced at Tuesday Mao a little unexpectedly, and said with a smile: "Your baby is also starting to hang up Bodong Ha now, huh?" ”

Tuesday Mao smiled and said, "Didn't he say that you called him and he was on call?" ”

I said, "Forget about Bodongha, this baby is in good health, not suitable for long-distance travel, and besides, the places we go to are all bitter cold areas." ”

Tuesday Mao said: "Yes." ”

I said: "We don't need much manpower, I don't know what the situation is over there, the last time I met a foreign merchant was from Jiading (today's Leshan), he said that to go to Xikang, you can go there to Hongya, and then in Ya'an, there are a lot of tea sellers into Xikang, so we follow them to the arrow furnace." ”

A few days later, Tuesday Mao and I set off with a few of the more shrewd and capable guys in the store, these guys I had been looking for for a long time to find, the world was chaotic at that time, and there were often people in the store to make trouble, these five or six guys were more or less related to us, and they were more or less soldiers or bandits, a little skilled.

We went downstream along the Wujiang River, remembering that a few years ago, my uncle entered the Wuling Mountains from here, and then inadvertently uncovered a dusty history, for a few years, I also fell into this maze, and went downstream along the Wujiang River, will it reveal more mysteries, I had a lot of thoughts for a while.

The boat traveled for two days, passed through Fuling, went upriver to Chongqing, from Chongqing to Jiading, passed through Jiajiang to Hongya, here is known as Xiaochuan North, in the past was a famous bandit area, the place is remote, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, but we are fortunate to have seven or eight people, and met a team of horses in Jiajiang to travel together, and finally arrived at Hongya at sunset.

The next day, I was about to enter Ya'an for more than 60 kilometers, and the first time I went out, I was still quite excited along the way, and I saw a lot of new things.

On the afternoon of the second day, we saw the city of Ya'an, which was lying between two rivers and surrounded by mountains.

Ya'an is the throat that enters Xikang, Sichuan tea is the daily necessities of the Kang-Tibetan people, and the horses, musk, cordyceps and other medicinal materials exported by Kang-Tibet are also saved through the Ya'an transportation and marketing channels.

Therefore, anyone who wants to go back and forth between the archery furnace and the eight counties under it must pass through here.

We met a team of tea merchants who went to the arrow furnace in Ya'an, and then we went together.

And from Ya'an Road to the arrow furnace, it takes eight days to walk all the way down. Especially when I turned over a place called Daxiangling, the mountains were full of human and animal bones, and I just felt very eerie.

On Tuesday, Mao said: "This place is even more dangerous than ours. ”

Heading west, the road spirals up the cliffs, sometimes raining, treacherous and slippery.

Pedestrians risk falling into the abyss if they stumble, and below is the surging waters of the Dadu River.

Especially when passing through a village called Luding, I saw that there was a long iron chain bridge on the Dadu River across the Dadu River, the bridge deck was paved with wooden planks, the bridge shook very badly when crossing the bridge, and the surging river water was rushing and roaring under the bridge, which made people frightened.

As we pass through the last stretch of the canyon, we are amazed by the wild rapids in the canyon.

The roar of the rapids echoed through the cliffs of the canyon, louder and louder, so deafening that we could not hear anything, and the rushing river was like a falling waterfall, lapping against the rocks and making a loud roar, which could be described as earth-shattering.

Splashing waves soared into the air. From the canyon, you can see the majestic snow-capped mountains reaching into the sky.

After seven days of thrilling travel, on the afternoon of the eighth day, the archery furnace finally appeared in front of our eyes.

One of our buddies is a distant brother of mine, named Chen Yutian, who is just eighteen this year.

Curiously asked, "Why is this called an arrow furnace?" ”

A tea worker surnamed Liu smiled at us: "This is a long word, according to legend, when it was still the Three Kingdoms, a general under Zhuge Liang named Guo Da set up a furnace here to make arrows, and later this name was handed down." ”

On Tuesday, Mao liked to listen to the Three Kingdoms opera the most, and suddenly came to his senses, and said: "It turns out that Shu is still here." ”

The tea worker surnamed Liu said: "The Qizong River we walked through the day before yesterday is the place where Zhuge Liang first captured Meng Shu when he went south!" ”

On Tuesday, Mao clapped his hands and sang: Oh, it's ridiculous that Xiao Meng was not respected by the king, so the superior leader of the male soldiers was subdued by him. Yesterday, I captured him and put him down, and he laughed in his heart that I was afraid of him.

On Tuesday, Mao's ticket holders did sing a little hot, and the tea workers applauded!

I asked curiously, "Brother Liu, why are there so many stone piles and colorful flags on the top of this mountain?" ”

Brother Liu said: "Your brother doesn't know anything, it's called Mani Dui, Tibetan is called Duobang, Tibetans all believe in Buddhism, this is Tibetans who come to pray for blessings, and they are engraved with six-character mantras and mantras." As soon as they encounter an auspicious day, Tibetans add stones to the mani pile while simmering mulberry. Those colorful banners are called wind and horse flags, and they are all densely packed with scriptures, six-character proverbs, and large passages of scriptures. ”

We entered the archery furnace from the east gate, and we saw that the archery furnace was indeed very lively, and the street was crowded with all kinds of characters, especially the men and women we saw for the first time, and the costumes were extremely eye-catching.

Unlike our Tujia, most of the Miao people's clothes are cyan and black, and the clothes worn by the people here are extremely bright.

The Kangba man was tall and big, with a big braid on his head, big pine ear stone earrings in both ears, a very wide robe, long cowhide boots on his feet, and a long knife around his waist.

The woman's braid is tied with red and green silk threads and draped behind her head, and a thick necklace or a small gold and silver Buddha box hangs around her neck, and a red or yellow ribbon is tied around her waist.

We said goodbye to the tea merchant and went to the Catholic church according to the address left in the photo.

No. 26 Zhongshan Street, this Zhongshan Street is the main road of the arrow furnace, the arrow furnace was originally in a narrow valley, everyone knows where Zhongshan Street is, and the Catholic Church is the landmark building of Zhongshan Street.

As we walked down Zhongshan Street, a blue-gray cathedral with towering minarets, pointed arches, large windows and stained stained glass appeared before us.