A few people only heard its voice and didn't see it, and they were looking around intently, but the person in front of him turned around and waved his hand and said, "Don't panic, they are just out to play and find some snacks to eat." I often walk this road, sometimes when I come back, I will bring them something delicious, these little things eat slippery, every time I go out of the mountain, I must wait for me to come back, like waiting for my mother's little treasure! ”

As she spoke, she took out some sweets and pastries from the cloth bag on her waist, broke them and threw them into the grass: "Eat, eat, don't fight!" Then he turned his head and smiled at Chu Han and the others, "These little things that originally only liked to eat meat and drink blood are now being fed vegetarian by me, haha!" ”

Less than two seconds after throwing out a large amount of bits and pieces, there was a creaking or rattling sound, apparently a rush.

Could it be the poisons? And looking at the appearance of Zhenai, they still treat them as family? Chu Han felt that his head was about to sweat, and asked in a low voice, "Ren Tianyou, what is the little thing she said in her mouth?" ”

Ren Tianyou lightly "shh ”

Chu Han immediately silenced herself, there are some things that she can't afford to provoke or hide now, but for the sake of Qianruo, she has to bite the bullet.

She looked at Qianyu, Qingqiu and the bamboo basket on her back, and said in her heart that she had to keep some of these dry foods, in case she was left alone and encountered poison, she could also use them as road money to save her life.

There is a setback, and it is indeed safe and sound along the way. Walking through the deep and lush dense forest, when the light in front of him suddenly brightened, Chu Han breathed a sigh of relief: he finally saw the sun.

What appears in front of everyone's eyes is a village valley full of stilted buildings, those bamboo or wooden buildings have not been specially planned, whether they are two or three floors, they are built according to the natural slope topography.

Qian Yu and Qing Qiu had obviously never seen such an architectural style, and they both thought it was very fresh, but because they were afraid of inadvertently violating other people's taboos, they didn't ask questions easily.

Seeing their expressions, he felt that his children had been praised, so he took the initiative to introduce them, saying that the very low upper floor was not inhabited, and only all kinds of grain were placed, while the downstairs was used to pile up sundries or serve as a livestock pen. The two-story one does not cover the top floor, and uses bamboo paste as the wall and grass as the roof......

Chu Han remembered the stilted buildings of some ethnic minorities such as the Miao people, because they lived in mountainous areas, the mountains were high and steep, and it was still not easy to excavate the foundation, and the weather was changeable, damp and foggy, and the ground at the bottom was too heavy to live, so they created this kind of dry column building with good ventilation performance, forming a special regional culture.

She guessed that a woman like Zhenai, who often ran out of the mountains and had seen the world, must have a better family background than ordinary people. Sure enough, after Zhe Nai finished speaking, he proudly pointed to a three-story wooden stilted building and said, "That is my home!" Let's go, go to the house to rest and have a cup of tea! ”

Although I heard that almost every family in Feng Chunguo raised Gu, when they went to the village, they didn't see any Gu worms.

Chu Han was actually quite itchy in his heart, he really wanted to see what the legendary Gu worm looked like, and he had heard of any snake Gu golden cicada Gu or something like that before, but he hadn't really seen it with his own eyes, so there was always a very mysterious and magical feeling, and he was a little suspicious of the truth.

People say that the people in the mountains are smart, but when the old man appeared, Chu Han found that this was not the case, probably because of the working life in the mountains, coupled with the small variety of food and incomplete nutrition, his complexion was a little dark, and his hands were also rough when he cooked the oil tea and served the bowl.

However, his clothes were not as conservative as those of the men in Feng Linguo, and most of his arms and calves were exposed.

Considering that wearing brocade clothes is too eye-catching, when the group was in Nanguan Town, they changed to coarse cloth clothes with better materials, even so, when Zhe Naiflang looked at the visitors, his face was still surprised for a while, obviously, their complexion and temperament could not be covered up by coarse cloth shirts.

Camellia oleifera, in the Miao nationality is a drink for hospitality, is to pour oil, salt, ginger, tea into the pot and fry, wait for the oil to smoke, then add water to boil, with a mallet to crush the tea, and then simmer, and then filter out the dregs, pour the tea into the bowl with corn, soybeans, peanuts, rice, glutinous rice, and then put some green onions, garlic leaves, pepper and mountain pepper as ingredients. In summer and autumn, beans are used, and in winter, sweet potatoes and other diced potatoes are used to make oil tea.

But in this poor border area, even if the living conditions are slightly better than other people's, there is no such complete food, and some things are not only luxuries for them, but also difficult to see.

Although they don't have tea songs like the Miao family, the host accompanies them to drink tea, and they also give each person a chopstick like the Miao family, if the guests don't continue to drink, put the chopsticks on the bowl, otherwise the host will always accompany you to drink.

Because Lian Ren Tianyou also secretly confessed that after arriving in Fengchun Country, he should not easily eat the food given by others and drink the water given by others, so when the tea bowl was held in his hand, everyone hesitated.

Seeing this, he smiled and said, "This is my home, so you can drink it with confidence." To tell you the truth, raising Gu in every family is actually just a rumor from the outside world, in fact, there are only two Gu Gong or Gu Po in a village at most, and some villages have none, especially because of the intermarriage of people on the border between the two countries, half of our village is from your Fenglin country, where do you know what to raise Gu? How is it possible for everyone to understand? ”

Such? Everyone was stunned, and Chu Han asked, "Then why ......?"

Zhe Nai smiled: "Why don't we explain, right?" In fact, it is very simple, it is for self-protection, others have a sense of awe and fear of us, so they dare not come to the door to bully us. Coupled with the natural barrier of the poisonous fog in the mountains and forests, as well as the countless poisonous insects in the forest, the people on your side did not dare to come, so we have been safe and sound. There is only one Gu Gong in our village, but the Gu cultivators do not make a move easily, and they rarely go out, as long as others do not come to the door to offend, they will not show up in front of people. ”

"And how did the intermarriage between you come about?" Chu Han was puzzled.

"When the girl or man in the village reaches the age, if you can't meet the person you like, I will take them out of the mountain and go to Nanguan Town or Ningcheng and other places to play and shop," "In fact, it is to find a husband or wife, if you are lucky, you can meet it once, and if you are unlucky, you may not be able to meet it two or three times." ”

The host and the guest laughed and chatted lightly, and everyone's vigilance disappeared a lot. Chu Han drank a bowl of the crude oil tea, and praised Zhen Nai Fu Xun for burning the oil tea with a strong fragrance, and thanked Zhen Nai's wife and husband for their hospitality, so that the two of them were very happy to hear it, and Zhen Nai also enthusiastically asked them who they were looking for.

Thinking that Zhenai might have seen it and might be able to help him, Chu Han and the others described Qianruo's appearance, and also gave a general idea of Nangong Jiu's appearance, especially his height, because they believed that as long as they had seen it, there was no woman who would not be impressed by the height of that man.

Zhe Nai shook his head at the beginning and said: "Anyway, there are no such men in our village and the nearby villages, but as long as you enter our Fengchun country from here, the forest outside our village is the only way, so let's go and send the things I purchased to the people in the village, and ask them by the way to see if anyone has ever met or seen them." ”

Chu Han hurriedly got up and thanked him, and took out a silver ingot, and he didn't accept it, Chu Han forced it into her hand, and he pushed it again with a half-truth, and finally accepted it with a half-tangled expression, after all, he was a person who often went out to the mountains to shop and barter, and knew that silver was a good thing, because it could buy all kinds of necessities.

With the role of silver, Zhe Nai is very conscientious and hardworking, patiently asking one by one, one by one, and finally really asking her a little clue. When she panted and led the woman to Chu Han, the woman didn't ask anything, but poured beans into the exotic bamboo tube in front of her, saying that she saw it in the early morning, because the fog was too thick, but she didn't completely see the appearance of the two, but she felt that it should be a beautiful and handsome man, one of them was indeed very tall, I was afraid that it was nearly two heads taller than her.

Chu Han was a little excited, and hurriedly offered a silver ingot and asked them which direction they were going, but the woman waved her hand and resolutely refused to accept it, saying that they didn't charge money for helping each other build houses in the village, but for a few words, she also reached out to ask for money, didn't she slap her in the face, and didn't she fall into the eyes of money. Besides, they have food and drink, and what they want so much money to do will only ruin their favor for nothing.

Hearing such simple words, Chu Han was a little moved. This is the true simplicity.

In modern times, she once heard the people of the previous generation say that when there were no bricks, no cement, and mud and adobe houses were lived, people in the countryside helped each other, a large group of people, first to help build your house, then to build my house together, and then to build his house together, and no one ever thought about asking for any money.

But later, the way of the world changed, people's hearts also changed, and people's feelings became thinner and thinner, and they reached out to ask for money for everything. Do you a little bit of a fart, even if you don't need money, you have to consciously take things out to show your gratitude, otherwise you won't have good words and good faces, say bad things about you in front of outsiders, chew the root of your tongue, and the old scene of helping each other in full swing will never be seen again.

She looked at the wooden or bamboo buildings in the village, imagining the simple feelings between the neighbors, and felt a pang of envy.

The sensible Qianyu took out a bag of pastries and salt from his bamboo basket and handed it to the village woman: "If you don't want silver, just accept this little thing." This is what we gave to your little baby and little Baoyun to eat, and we can't refuse. ”

The woman was very happy when she saw something, but she still hesitated, and finally saw Zhi Nai nodding with a smile, and then said thank you and stretched out her hand to take it, saying which direction to go, she really didn't see it, and then there was a three-way intersection, I am afraid that I can only guess.

Without waiting for Chu Han to ask, he took the woman's words and explained: "On the far left of that intersection is the 100,000 Mountains leading to the southwest, presumably they won't go there, right?" The middle one is due west, which is the direction that leads to the national capital; The direction of the one on the right is northwest, and it should lead to the border with the Western True Kingdom. The road on the left and in the middle, I listened to the people who passed in and out of the Wind Pure Country from here, and the one on the right was my guess. ”

Chu Han was dumbfounded: "Who is Nangong Jiu and what is the purpose of kidnapping Qianruo, we don't know, how can we determine which way he is going?" It's okay to say if it's a person from the Wind Pure Country, but what if he is actually a person from the West True Country and deliberately borrowed the Tao from the Wind Pure Country? ”

Nangong Jiu...... The surname Nangong ......" thought vaguely, "If this is his real name, maybe there is a possibility, a clue." ”

Ren Tianyou looked at him and said, "You mean, the Holy Son Guardian Family of the Wind Pure Country?" ”

Yi Hao nodded: "Not bad." Feng Chun has a priest and a holy son, and the exclusive escort of the holy son is the Nangong family. ”

Son? Exclusive guards? Chu Han's head was on fire, and he said in his heart what kind of life he had fallen into mold, how could he provoke a big guy with a big head?

Ren Tianyou said: "Menghan, if you don't worry, we will divide into two roads, all the way to the middle road to chase in the direction of the national capital of Fengchun Country, and all the way to the direction of the border of Xizhen Kingdom on the right." ”

Chu Han shook his head, first forced himself to calm down, and after thinking about it carefully, he said in a resolute tone: "No, if you separate, the strength of each side will be greatly weakened, you are all my family and friends, I don't feel at ease if anyone goes." Without further ado, let's go to the three forks now, and maybe there will be some clues there. ”

But no matter how many people there are, you can't do without a local to lead the way. Tempted by a high salary, she agreed to continue to act as a guide, but she objected to going to the three forks immediately: "If you go now, when you get there, even if you quickly determine the direction of your journey, you won't be able to walk two miles before it gets dark, are you sure you can live in the wild or in the trees?" We have a lot of reptiles and tree snakes here. ”