Along the stone road, to this ancient city formed by the intersection of the Mabang Road in all directions, our horse team, led by Uncle Gesang of the pot, found the horse shop without much effort. There is a rule in this line of work, after settling down, people must first serve the horses to eat and drink enough before lighting a fire to cook.

And everyone sets up the pot and cooks well, and the first bowl is usually filled with the pot head, which is also the origin of the name "pot head" - the first bowl of eating a big pot of rice symbolizes a kind of status At the same time, it is also a way to express everyone's respect to him.

Our horse team consisted of more than 60 mules and horses, as well as nearly 30 yaks, so we were divided into three groups by Gesang and stayed in three adjacent horse shops.

When I entered the door, I found that the horse shop where Sharon and I settled was a well-laid out courtyard house, with horses on the lower floor and horses on the upper floor. After pouring hay into the stable, scooping up water, and giving it to the mules and horses, we followed everyone up to the second floor and ate the butter tea we had brought on the road.

After waking up early the next morning, we led the mules and horses out of the horse shop to the meeting place, but we found that the group had changed many new faces. Roughly counting, about one-third of the people have changed, and I just felt puzzled that Sharon had become the opening point for the handover of personnel and goods, pulled me aside, and explained in a low voice.

It turned out that in the area of Lijiang and Zhongdian, it was an important place for the caravan to be handed over in and out of Tibet. The reason is simple: Tibetans who are accustomed to living at high altitudes will sometimes have trouble going down to the low-altitude mountains; People who often live in the dam will also suffer from altitude sickness when they suddenly go up to a plateau with an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters.

Therefore, over time, everyone found a compromise, and chose to carry out a wave of flexible handover on the dividing line of this plateau ladder, some of the horses who worked for short jobs were accustomed to walking on the plateau, so they turned back, while other horsemen hired by the firm were added to fill the vacancies in the team's manpower and load.

Listening to Sharon say this, I couldn't help but sigh: How can this foreign girl, when it comes to things related to the horse gang, know better than me, a Chinese? By the way, I almost forgot, this girl's mother is a university professor who specializes in this area.

It is estimated that Sharon's knowledge about the Ancient Tea Horse Road, the "other Silk Road" that collapsed the three-level continental ladder, should have been from her mother's book, probably.

After listening to her finish like a few treasures, the horses and feet who handed over the goods were almost finished, and only listened to the order of the head of the horse, and our horse team lined up in a column one after another, and marched steadily towards the other side of the mountain.

At this stop, almost all the horses and feet of the yak herders turned back, and there were twelve horsemen waiting here, each with their own mules and horses. As far as the eye could see, nearly a hundred mules and horses pulled out of the slender procession and slowly hit the road like long snakes. I saw that the head horse had turned around the foot of the mountain in the distance, and Sharon's tail mule and I had not yet walked out of the old street.

Turning the mountain pass, as soon as I raised my eyes, I saw the jade dragon snow mountain wrapped in silver, from this angle, the snow peak hung his head, as if he raised his head and sobbed, quite a father sent his daughter to marry melancholy. Suddenly remembered, in the legend, the wife of the god of the snow mountain, Kawagebo, is not the daughter of the god of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain?

Anyway, last night, when I was bored and had nothing to do, Sharon and I disguised themselves and followed Luo Quan and three other monks to the small temple in the suburbs to investigate, and I really stumbled upon some stories about them.

I remember that at that time, the itinerary of the four lamas was very simple, basically to preach with local monks and discuss the teachings, and to exchange ideas about Buddhism, but I did not find any useful clues. Just as she was about to go back to bed, Sharon, who was groping around and probing, found something interesting in the apse.

It is a long, imposing mural under the dome of the house, which recounts, from left to right, the love story of Kawagebo and Minzem. According to Sharon, the first thing described in the mural should be the scene of Kawagebo's expedition to the country of the Evil Luohai.

I saw Kawagebo in the painting, with a silver gun and a white robe, sitting down on a jade horse like a dragon, with a long tassel in his hand like electricity, stretching out his hand to shoot a fierce general of the evil Luo Hai who rushed towards him. Behind him, there were the corpses of a number of Evil Luohai warriors lying on the ground.

In the distance, the cavalry of Kawagebo was demoralized when they saw this, and they were raising their hands and waving the military flag of the snow-capped dragon in the snow-capped mountains, cheering for Kawagebo while rushing towards the terrified Evil Luohai soldiers like a tide.

In the murals, both the image of the soldier and the image of Kawagebo have obtained infinite artistic sublimation and praise in front of the enemy army fighting on both legs and trembling.

Immediately afterward, the picture shows the King of Evil Luohai, who is like a frightened bird, stumbling to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and asking for help from the benevolent Jade Dragon Snow Mountain God Apu Sanduo.

In the picture, the benevolent Apu Sanduo is full of vegetarianism, but compared with the silver shining Kawagebo, he is a little less sharp and a little more tolerant. Seeing the wolf smoke rising from the Evil Luohai Country and the lives of the people in ruins, how could the benevolent Apu Sanduo God bear to watch the innocent Evil Luohai citizens suffer with a cold eye, and after a little hesitation, he turned his head to his daughter, the goddess of the sea.

I saw that she was all blue, and I don't know whether to use the vast sea to dye the white Hada blue, or directly wrap the boundless blue of the sky around her body. When I saw her, I only felt that my gaze instantly crossed her delicate and moving face, but I fell into the ethereal sea and sky in the background, and I was attracted and could not move away.

Is it really her calming magic, or is it the skillful craftsman who carves and paints the frescoes, using some tricks and tricks to show her mastery? There is no way to know.

In the next scene, Mian Cimu, who obeyed his father's order, rode a white deer, carried a bow and arrows, and set off heroically, all the way across the mountains and seas, through the old forest swamp, and appeared in front of Kawagebo, who was blocking and killing, and Buddha was blocking and killing Buddha.

When the eyes of the two locked on each other at the same time, time seemed to stop flowing, and space seemed to stop and turn.

And this vivid mural in front of us also captures this moving and shining moment in time: the heart of Mianzimu has never run out of the arms of the heroic Kawagebo since then; And Kawagebo's gaze has never been taken away from the beautiful and pure face Zimu simb since.

In this encounter arranged by the god of fate, a pair of people made in heaven held each other's palms tightly in this way, and never to be separated again. Kawagebo forgot that his purpose was to conquer this devastated land; Mian Zimu also forgot that his mission was to stop the snow-capped mountain demon general in front of him......

Fortunately, after successfully holding the hand of Mian Cimu, Kawagebo, who was impressed by the singing and beauty of Miaozimu, had no reason to fight, and naturally agreed to the peace request put forward by the Evil Luo Haiguo, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.

After the army returned from the territory of the Evil Sea with strict discipline, Kawagebo and Minzmu, who fell in love with each other at first sight, did not want to be separated from each other. In the pleasant scenery under the moon before the flowers, just as Mian Cimu was debating whether to go home first to return to his father, the mighty army of Evil Luohai quietly surrounded the two at the foot of the Prince Snow Mountain.

The one who separated the crowd was naturally the lucky King of the Evil Luohai. In fact, in his heart, he has always coveted the beautiful face of the fairy, but because of the power of the Jade Dragon Mountain God, he did not dare to be presumptuous. However, this is at the foot of Prince Snow Mountain, which is far away from the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, but he can no longer suppress the possessiveness in his heart, so he decides to sacrifice all the elites and snatch the noodles into his hands.

The invincible King of Evil Luohai seems to have long forgotten the previous situation when he had groveled and begged for the protection of the three gods of Apu, and turned around to tease his benefactor's daughter in front of Kawagebo. I don't know if it's the absolute superiority in numbers, or because he was carried away by lust, he became unclear about the situation, and delusionally thought that he could rely on the crowd tactics to besiege and kill the powerful Kawagebo.

Across from him, the outnumbered Kawagebo and Mian Tzum smiled. Although they are facing a sea of enemies, their hearts are as calm as the snow-capped mountains and seas.

How can the power of ants compete with gods and demons?!

The snow-colored saber was swung out, and the arms of the Evil Luohai King in the crowd were cut off in unison, but before he could exclaim in astonishment, the next moment, his head like a fat pig had already fallen to the ground. But it was not contaminated at all with the sword of the fearless Kawagebo, which was as cold as the snowy wind.

So, at the end of the mural, it is the Evil Luo Hai Kingdom that has turned into a frozen glacier under the anger of Kawagebo - I saw that under the boundless mana of the sea goddess, the monstrous waves dozens of meters high carried the momentum of overwhelming mountains and seas, and instantly swept every inch of land up and down the city of the King of Evil Luohai, and followed by the wind and snow in the sky, and the angry cry of Kawagebo who urged this cold and snowy wind!

The Evil Luohai Kingdom, which was once on the plateau, the closest place to the sky, was destroyed in this way. To be exact, ruined at the hands of two men and women who love each other.

"It turns out that this is the reason for the demise of the Evil Luo Sea Kingdom." After looking at this magnificent mythological epic on the dome wall, Sharon couldn't help but sigh to herself. Yes, for thousands of years after the Evil Luo Haiguo was erased from the map, it only came to people's memories of the legend of Kawagebo.

After a long time, who would have thought that this once glorious civilization suffered a catastrophe because of the ignorable monarch's indifference to the goddess.

"It is said that later, Mian Cimu did not return to the Jade Dragon, but followed Kawagebo to fight in the south and the north, guarding his left and right ...... all the way."

I didn't listen to what Sharon said afterwards, and in my mind, I was still reminiscing about the characters with distinct personalities portrayed in the vivid murals.

I couldn't help but admire the true temperament of the fiery Kawagebo, but I couldn't help but feel the loyalty and bravery of the face who followed him without hesitation. Tomb Hunter East White