Continuing to look at the photos, I found that in addition to the antique Li and Yang Guoshan in the photos, there is also a back that is also very familiar.

This is a middle-aged man of the same age as Yang Guoshan, who should be facing away from the camera at the time, and I can only see one-third of his face, but it is this one-third of his face that makes me feel a sense of déjà vu.

Who is this? There are four people in the photo, this person is standing closest to the camera, opposite Yang Guoshan, looking at the expression on Yang Guoshan's face, he should be talking to this person.

I searched the entire wall for photos, but unfortunately this person only appeared in this one photo.

"Little brother—"

The shouting outside the door dragged me back to reality.

After going out, I hooked my hand at the old man and asked, "Where did you get the pictures on this wall?" ”

The old man laughed and replied: "They are all left by the guests of the village, and it has been many years, and the accountant of our village learned to manage the accounts from one of them—this was about twenty years ago." ”

Twenty years is not a short time for everyone's life, but for such an almost isolated village, it seems to be a command room.

For someone of the old man's age, the events that happened in the village twenty years ago are still vivid.

The old man walked softly into the hut, looked at the black-and-white photographs on the wall, and seemed to be lost in thought.

"These photos have been here for more than twenty years......"

It was about twenty-seven or eight years ago, when a few outsiders suddenly came to the village.

For the people in the village, except for a few villages in this hidden valley, they have only seen the Jade Girl Village, and they all feel very novel.

It's really just like the description of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", the people living in the paradise are hospitable to outsiders.

These young people from other places are also very friendly, telling them a lot of "strange things" about the outside world, and teaching them a lot of life skills.

According to the old man's recollection, the young men stayed in the valley for half a month when they first came.

They barely left the village for the first ten days, spending most of their time studying the altar in the village.

They were very interested in these altars, and they struck them again and again with all the tools they carried.

The people in the village didn't understand what they were doing, and they didn't bother to be curious, but they enthusiastically helped them bring water and food, and gathered around to listen to their interesting stories when they were resting.

In their spare time, a few outsiders also took out a small black box that would glow and pressed it many times.

Several of them stayed in the village for about ten days and then went to a second village.

Just when they thought that the outsiders would stay in the other villages for a long time, what they didn't expect was that four days later, they came back with a lot of things on their backs.

A few outsiders just came to say goodbye, and they said that they had urgent matters to hurry back to their hometowns.

After the outsiders left, the whole village quickly returned to peace, and gradually no one talked about the outsiders anymore.

Unexpectedly, about half a year later, outsiders reappeared at the entrance of the village, but two more people were added, including a woman.

They brought a lot of interesting things to the villagers, and they took out a stack of photos from their bags (which I later learned were called photos).

Some of the photos on the wall were brought by a few outsiders at that time.

This time the outsiders took more pictures and asked the villagers to lead the way to several other places in the valley, and this one was the village accountant, who was only in his early teens at the time.

In the next six or seven years, several outsiders came a dozen times, almost every corner of the valley, and finally in the summer of that year, the outsiders happily returned to the village again.

The old man pointed to the antique Li in the photo and said that in these dozen times, he must come every time, and the others have been replaced almost every time.

From the second time onwards, the vintage Lee always carried some photographs with him – and of course a lot of other things.

After the last time Antique Lee left, he never came back, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed.

The people in the village were worried about the good of the antique Li and felt that these outsiders were like gods, so they posted these photos in the "holy house".

After listening to the old man's words, I fell into deep thought for a moment, and seemed to see the antique Li Bashan wading through the water twenty years ago to find this place, and then saw the altar.

After many archaeological studies, Antique Li learned that this was once the place where the Yellow Emperor sacrificed heaven and earth......

I guess he must have found some clue first, then found the valley, and found new clues in the valley. The old man didn't know what they had found in the valley back then, and he left very calmly, and never looked into the emperor's sacrifice to heaven and earth.

"Actually, the man left a child......"

The old man paused, then continued.

Child? All of a sudden, my mind was brought back to reality. Is he saying that Antique Lee left a child?

In fact, I didn't realize what it meant at the first time, and I thought about it after repeating it.

"What about the kid?" I asked casually. At the same time, I realized that this so-called child should also be in his early twenties, three or four years older than me.

The old man said something in the ear of one of the men beside him, and the man ran out, and in a few minutes he led in with an extremely handsome girl.

I know this girl! I made a job for her just now. Courtesy.

The girl looked at me very shyly, and immediately lowered her head. He said, "Little brother looking for me?" ”

The old man continued: "This is the lady of the man in the photo, who is twenty-two years old today. ”

Suddenly my head buzzed, what? She's the daughter of Antique Lee? Antique Li actually left such a beautiful girl?

The old man sighed and continued:

After the man (Antique Li) came a few times, he became familiar with many people in the village, including a girl who was just starting to fall in love, the girl was only nineteen years old at the time. After the ceremony, you can talk about marriage.

People who know a little common sense know that this is against common sense, the flower season and the rainy season, the beginning of love, some early and some late, besides, grandma organizes it every five years. Only those who have reached the age of 18 can participate, so that there will be many "older" girls and boys.

When this nineteen-year-old girl first met Antique Lee, she fell in love with him, but she couldn't confess it.

Antique Li was in his Chinese New Year's Eve, and because he was devoted to archaeology, he gradually delayed his life's events.

Speaking of the antiques at that time, Li Wen was polite and bookish, which was the image that girls were obsessed with in that era, just like girls now generally like big money.

After many contacts, the two finally became a "one-night couple" under the urging of hormones.

According to the old man's account, coupled with my understanding of antique Li, I knew that he must have devoted himself to his career back then, and he must have been very shocked by the discovery in the canyon, so he chose to leave after weighing it.

When the antique Li left, the girl had not yet found out that she was pregnant, imagine that the scene when the two were separated should be very touching, and after parting, the girl knew that she was pregnant.

Speaking of which, I have to add a few more words:

In this valley, there is a very strict rule, that is, it is strictly forbidden to have a fetus, no matter what the conditions, but if you are pregnant, you must give birth, if you violate it, you will be severely punished by your grandmother.

In addition, these five villages have a population of three to four thousand, and they can intermarry with each other, but they must not set foot in this valley. In addition to intermarriage, there are three "joy festivals" held in the valley every year.

The so-called festival of joy is that on a certain night in the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn, all men and women of all ages (educated. Unmarried men and women after the ceremony) gathered in the square of the valley, in the moonlight, lit a bonfire, and then began to sing and dance.

There is a kind of grass in the valley, and the people in the valley become "joy grass", and every time they are happy, they put the dried joy grass into the bonfire.

This grass is non-flammable, can give off a faint fragrance in the fire, and has a strong aphrodisiac effect.

Originally, young people of this age were at the beginning of their love, coupled with the atmosphere of singing and dancing, under the stimulation of physical contact, hormones were secreted sharply, and they were stimulated by the pleasure grass, and the consequences can be imagined.

At around 11 p.m., the event ends "naturally", because all the men and women who look at each other will find a secluded place and do something shameful.

In a few months, there will be a lot of pregnant women in all the villages, and in a few months, the population of the villages will increase dramatically.

In retrospect, this activity, which was purely aimed at stimulating population growth, was similar to the activities of many ethnic minorities in ancient times.

In this case, it is not unusual for the girl to give birth to the child of the antique plum.

Everyone in the village knew who the child's father was, and they took special care of their mother and son, and gradually the child became a slim and beautiful girl.

Looking at the beautiful and shy girl in front of me, the appearance of antique Li suddenly appeared in my mind, not to mention, he is really similar to this girl.

I crept up to the girl and whispered to her, "What's your name?" ”

The girl looked up at me, then quickly lowered her head and muttered, "My name is Muzi."

Muzi? Muzi? Isn't Muzi the word "Li" when combined? The sixth sense tells me that this girl is indeed the flesh and blood of Antique Lee.

In my mind, antique Li has already become a relative, his death made me really uncomfortable for a while, at this time suddenly saw his daughter, there was a feeling of acquaintance, subconsciously I grabbed her hand.

The fingers are white, weak and boneless. The girl subconsciously withdrew her hand, did not break free, and gave up.

For the people of these five villages in the canyon, the people of the Jade Girl Village are his bosses, and my grandmother and I are their top bosses, and they dare not have the slightest disobedience in terms of words and behavior.

"Muzi, huh? You...... Do you know about your father? ”

Being held by me, Muzi became even more shy, his face was like a red apple, he nodded slightly, and replied, "Know a little, listen to my mother." ”