The bonus of the business commission in the first two months was issued, and as one of the rewards, the Phoenix Tour in Xiangxi, which Lin Zi had been longing for for a long time, finally came to fruition, and the other two people who accompanied him were Wang Jian and Shi Nian. Yes, the two of them are finally together, which is a blessing in disguise for Wang Jian. This time Don Juan definitely has no opinion, if you want to change him to break the skull first and then hug the beauty, he won't do it.

When we arrived in Xiangxi, the tourist bus we transferred to was relatively old-fashioned, the windows on both sides were not fully sealed whole large glass, but the kind that could be pushed open, because the temperature in the mountainous area was relatively low and rainy, the wind blew on the face was very cold, and everyone did not open the window. Halfway through the carriage, an old man was actually smoking, making the whole car smell of smoke, I was about to go crazy, the girl sitting in front of him couldn't stand it anymore, and turned back to him and said, "Please don't smoke in the car." As a result, he ignored it twice, and his sister roared angrily: "If you don't put out the smoke again, I'll shoot!" The old man's hands shook in fright, and the cigarette fell to the ground. In fact, she wanted to say, "If you don't put out the smoke again, I'll open the window!" "The girl may be a Fujianese, and most of the people who go to the southern sea have such an accent, and she hasn't learned Mandarin well, which seems to be beneficial.

On the way, I also encountered a rush market, which Xiangxi called "rushing". Not only a few nearby Miao villages come here to catch the market, but also the traders of Huayuan, Jishou, Luxi, Mayang, Guizhou Songtao, Tongren and Chongqing Xiushan also often come here to trade, which can be described as "three provinces to catch one", the products are rich and the price is cheap. There are many rare local specialties with national characteristics, such as bracken, mangosteen shoots, toon, natural pine mushroom oil, chicken ear root and other wild vegetables, as well as porcini mushrooms, dried eggplant, dried toon, dried bitter gourd, and other dry goods with Xiangxi characteristics, as well as Miaojia style bacon, cured suckling pig, sour fish, capers, spicy toon and so on. When the temporary parking was going to buy some to take away, Lin Zi said that we are here to play, just arrived to buy so many things, with inconvenience, don't be in a hurry, it's not too late to buy when you leave, you should buy it in the store in the town.

Deep in the mountains, the road winds and falls, and there are people bathing and playing in the celestial bodies in the stream below, and I really want to jump out of the car and join in.

I don't know how long it took to shake again, the car finally stopped going, the bumps finally stopped, and the moment I saw the stilted building, I knew that the phoenix had arrived. The quaint and staggered buildings on both sides of the Tuojiang River are the most representative residential buildings in Xiangxi Phoenix, which embodies the wisdom of the ancestors such as the Miao family, the Tujia family and even the Han people, occupying the sky and not occupying the water. I also learned about the "stilted building" for the first time from Shen Congwen's "Border City", and some scholars have verified that the stilted building of the ancient city of Phoenix originated in the Tang and Song dynasties, and believes that the older "ganlan" is the predecessor of the stilted building. "Wei Shu Biography" said: "Bureaucrats, another name for Gai Nanman...... According to the tree building blocks, in order to live on it, the name is the dry column. Today's stilted building looks from afar, and the windows are neatly fluttering a row of white flags, and when I get closer, I find that it is the white sheets dried by the family hotel.

The scenery of the phoenix is very postcard. Stepping into the ancient Phoenix City, my heart immediately relaxed, and my thoughts became leisurely, as if I had been soaked in the clear and transparent Tuojiang River. The long and deep alleys, the towering old houses, the cornices, the white walls and green tiles. The thousand-year-old bluestone road has been cleaned countless times in the drizzle, accumulating a thick charm of style and painting. In it, there is no fighting, less vanity, but no troubles, only the leisure of peace and laziness.

Miao women wrapped in their heads, wearing silver ornaments, and wearing batik, sit at the door of their homes and hold the soles of their shoes that can never be finished. In the ginger candy workshop at the corner of the street, there is a slight paste and a faint spicy taste wafting in the sweetness, and the large pieces of syrup with yellow and bright silver are constantly folded and elongated in the hands of the master, and your thoughts become long......

When night falls, the inns along the river provoke all kinds of lanterns, and the neon lights of the riverside bars such as "One Page Love", "Pingshui Meeting" and "Half-Drunk People" are also reflected on the water, shrouding the blue water of the river in colorful and confusing. A few young men on the riverbank played the guitar and hummed folk songs, which was the freshness and comfort of the Qinhuai River in the sound of pulp and light. From time to time, the flash lights pierced the night sky, leaving beautiful shadows, and the humming of the guitar and the cheerful laughter of the girls flowed along the river, and the rainbow bridge was reflected in it. The guest restaurant, leaning on the railing and overlooking, appreciate the charming night, and enjoy the red, red, green and green wishing lights floating all over the river. Don't take care of the day's long-distance fatigue, take a boat on the Tuojiang River at night, the boatman is swinging around you leisurely, the Tuojiang River in the night is shrouded in smoke and fog, and the lights and shadows are shaking red like a fairy in the painting of the pipa.

The next day, I got up at sunrise and got up, pushed open the wooden lattice window lattice of Fengxuan Inn, stretched out a comfortable waist against the quiet roof, and went to the food stall with slippers to spend three or five yuan to eat a bowl of pure rice tofu. We chewed ginger candy in our mouths and wandered aimlessly through the alleys, which were too narrow for two umbrellas to stretch out side by side, but could hold up the spicy direct rays of the sun. With a sense of freshness, wander through the dazzling array of tie-dye and Miao silver jewelry, blackened wax meat and cartoons printed on T-shirts on both sides of the street. Shi Nian and Lin Zi both bought a small blue turban printed with broken white flowers and wrapped it around their heads.

When you are tired of walking, pick up a stone step by the river and sit for a while. There are tourists posing for photos with Canon cameras, women wearing hats and rolling up their trousers and carrying wooden mallets to do laundry, and even a young local washing motorcycles in the water. People can't help but lean over to draw water with their hands, the river water is so cold, the cool feeling spreads from the tips of the hands to the whole body like electricity, straight to the heart, into the bone marrow.

Take a handful of water to cool your mood, and take a look at the tourists who pass by on the rocks jumping on the river and the local Miao people wearing pointed shuttles and carrying bamboo baskets on their coarse cloth shoulders; Listen to the sound of the waterwheel stirring the river stream in the near distance and the sweet song of the Miao family girl floating in the distance with the cowhide drum; Feel the ups and downs of history, the unrestrained true interest of the two elders and Niu Bao, the beautiful and demure character of the cuicui, and the far-reaching and long-lasting artistic conception between the mountains and rivers of the ancient city, and the sad and moving legends.