Our end point this time is in a mountain range that is shrouded in fog all year round, which is called "Hey Zu Lada" by the people of Yi Village, "Hey" means "fog", "Zu" means "place to live and stay for a long time", and "Lada" also means valley, that is to say, this mountain range is a valley where fog stays for a long time.

The medicine pickers in the deep mountains did not dare to rush in, and only with hunting dogs did they dare to move around the periphery.

However, there are abundant products here, with a variety of precious medicinal herbs and rare animals.

In earlier times, there were some Yi villages scattered in the vicinity, and the local villagers used to use the spring water to grow rice, but somehow, there were often epidemics of cold and heat diseases, and people and animals died, so they had to gradually migrate to the surrounding mountains to live.

Not only the local Yi people, but also the exploration team and the army surveying and mapping team have been in distress here many times, and many of them have died and gone missing.

When I was in Maji Cottage, I heard from an elder of the Yi nationality that in 1950, there were more than 30 remnants of an anti-Japanese army, relying on well-armed people, trying to cross the "Hey Zulada", and no one survived after entering, so there was a "terrifying death valley" here.

After the liberation, there were also people who had taken the hound to go deep into the "Hey Zu Lada", but never came out, and then the people who were waiting outside saw that they did not return for a long time, so they had to blow the dog flute in front of the mountain, only the hound ran out, but the person was gone.

Since then, no one has dared to enter that mountain range again.

But this time we must completely eliminate the demons hidden in Funnel Mountain, and if you guess correctly, there is 100% of the ancient tomb of the long-robed man in "Hey Zu Lada"!

"Hey Zu Lada" is several days away from Maji Cottage, in fact, the straight-line distance is not far, but out of the range of Maji Cottage, there is only a barely counted path that people have stepped out of the path to Ejue Luo Cave, and then go deeper, there is no road, they are all lofty mountains.

The long mule team is slowly moving forward in the middle of the mountain road, Ah Xi and a mule should lead the way in front of the team, it is not easy to be the leader of the mule team, in addition to paying attention to the situation of the road ahead, the main task is to pull and shout when the mule retreats through the steep section, so that the mule can complete the task while preventing them from falling off the cliff.

"The olive tree bears fruit in a dream, and the fruit falls silently, and when you smell the mellow aroma of buckwheat wine, you want to drink, and when you drink it, you think of your ancestors~~~" The loud mountain song came from the front.

The other Yi warriors in the team also sang along with Ah Xi: "They carved the images of fire and fate on the rock fire, and then danced barefoot against the rock, silently speaking, the hunter bitten by the wild boar lay on the hill, and the arm by the fence under the mountain shook like a long bitterthorn vine!" ”

The stallion looked at Lianrui and Ah Xi and they sang and stared at me, I spread my hands and said that I can't help it, the Yi mountain song is not something you want to sing well, it emphasizes that you can sing it in the middle of the singing, singing in the singing, through the cooperation training of true and false voices can achieve a unified singing state, and the handling of the low voice area is very difficult to grasp.

I said to the stallion, "Brother stallion, save it, you can't usually sing it, but with the voice you howled all night before, you might as well try the Dick Cowboy song." ”

"Okay, you're dying, no one is allowed to advance the night in the future! Do you know, Master Ma, my baby is gone this time, and I have suffered a lot of losses! This time I went into the tomb of the thousand-year-old zongzi, and said that Lao Tzu also wanted to get the loss back, I don't believe that he has no treasure! The stallion swore an oath.

After saying that, he instigated the mule to go to the lotus stamen, and walked side by side with the lotus stamen to take the sister, probably telling a joke, and from time to time making the lotus stamen laugh, good luck big stallion.

I turned my head and asked my grandfather, "Old man, with your ability, you must have known that there was something abnormal here, right?" Why deal with it now? ”

Grandpa said helplessly: "I want to too, but more than ten years ago, when I was preparing everything, Ma Da Nose lost his ability to save your mother, and the boy of the Ma family was about the same age as you at the time, how could you let me be embarrassed to ask him to help again." ”

I wondered, "Aren't there still two families, you can ask them for help?" ”

Grandpa smiled bitterly: "For some reason, it is impossible for me to get their help, so I have been living in Nanbian County, and I have come up from time to time to see the situation, hoping that it will not develop in a bad direction, but I didn't expect it to finally break out." ”

I was not convinced: "In vain, those two families are members of the Six Micros, and they are not united at all!" ”

Grandpa then said: "Okay, there are some things that you can't change the result of telling you now, these problems, just solve them one by one in the process of your growth, fortunately, you and the boy of the Ma family have learned the real skills, I dare to let everyone prepare to solve this matter together, there will be a lot of danger ahead, maybe I can't protect you, but since you are adults, and at the same time, as the descendants of Liuwei, you are also willing to carry the banner of my Liuwei, you must go through some things to mature, Otherwise, there will be more dangers waiting for you in the future, I am old and cannot protect you for the rest of my life. ”

When I heard this, I suddenly felt very uncomfortable, what was grandpa talking about, as if he was explaining what was going on.

I rubbed my grandfather's arm and said, "Old man, what nonsense are you talking about, you are determined to live a long life!" After this is over, you have to go with me to the Void Zhai to find Kuanbo, and we can get together together!" ”

Grandpa smiled: "Okay, okay, no problem!" ”

I looked at the spring breeze proudly mule hooves, side by side with the lotus stamen stallions, listening to the Yi family men hearty songs, I thought to myself that everyone can always be so happy, only those who have left home know how good it is to be with their families!

When we approached the Ejue Luo Cave, my grandfather pointed to a mountain stream and told us that this was the place where I was found with the stallion and Li An.

After a few days of rain, the wet and soft sediment has collapsed and buried most of the holes, and Grandpa said that after we were found and rescued, he and Father Soma began to make arrangements for today's operation.

Except for us stopping halfway to let the mule team rest and eat dry food, we were on the road all the time, and gradually the people were also a little tired, and there was nothing to say all the way after that.

Unconsciously walk to the evening, look back can no longer see the smoke on the top of the horse cottage, as the saying goes, look at the mountain to run the dead horse, in front of this piece of continuous mountains from the time we set off to see, walked a day to walk to the foot of one of the closest to us.

The golden afterglow of the setting sun shines from the continuous peaks, as if they are coated with a thick layer of gold dust and sparkles.

There was a shout from the front, and Ah Xi raised his right hand to stop the mule team. I took the opportunity to turn over and get off the mule, rubbed my body that was about to fall apart, and helped my grandfather beat his shoulders and walked to Ah Xi's side together.

Ah Xi pointed to the halfway up the mountain and said, "I'm going to climb the mountain next, do you want the Dragon King to rest more?" ”

Grandpa waved his hand and said, "My old bones can withstand the toss at least in the past few years, it's okay, let's go!" ”

There is a lot of damp rain in the mountains, it should have rained heavily not long ago, the soil is very soft, the mountain road is narrow and slippery, the mountain road leading to Ejue Luo Cave has been repaired by generations of Maji Cottage, this mountain road paved with bluestone blocks is actually easier to walk than the road just now.

On the mountainside is the Ejue Luo Cave where we are going, which is the place where Maji Cottage will be cremated after the death of the Yi people.

"Tap! Tap! "The sound of the iron palms on the hooves of the mule team hitting the bluestone pavement stopped, and we finally arrived at our destination for the day - Ejue Luo Cave.

"Hey! It's finally here. The stallion lying on the back of the mule rolled over and said.

Although he had already healed his buttocks, it had only been two days, and the long jolts were still a bit unbearable for the stallion, so in the end he simply lay on the back of the mule to reduce the burden on his buttocks.

This is not only a place for cremation, but also the only way to "Hey Zu Lada", and there was a legendary cannibalism such as "Pu Zhu Yi" before, so we also wanted to take this opportunity to investigate here, so this is the best transit point.

Ejue Luo Cave is about 12 meters high, the opening is 17 or 8 meters, it is quite deep, the depth is estimated to be close to one kilometer, there are a number of simple three-pot villages made by the Yi people, the shape is the same as that of Soma Daddy Hall, but it is much smaller.

The cave is made entirely of granite, and even the ground is dotted with stones of various sizes.

At this time, the Yi men who accompanied us were checking whether there were any strangulation on the mule's body, and if there were any, they immediately applied ointment, and walked so far with a weight all the way, the iron palms of the mules wore out quickly, and they took turns to replace the mules with new palms after checking the hooves of all the mules.

Then they unloaded the mule's baggage into the cave, where the mules were full of dense green vegetation and could eat to their heart's content.

Grandpa, me, the stallion, Lian Rui and Ah Xi are in the cave around a lit three-pot village.

On the way here, Ah Xi told us that the body of the deceased who had been disturbed by the "Pu Zhu Yi" had been cremated.

The Yi people also have their own rules for cremating the deceased, and if they are blood relatives of the deceased (brother, brother, sister, daughter), their gifts must be accompanied by cattle or sheep in addition to wine.

One or two miles away from the bereaved home, he began to weep loudly, and wept silently before the bereaved family stood before the deceased.

Within two or three days of death, the owner will kill all the livestock that his relatives have prepared as gifts for the guests.

When the Yi family goes out of mourning, the women will hug to the spirit and cry, the men will gather in front of the spirit and shout, Bi Mo recites the "Guiding Path", which means that the soul of the deceased points the way to the ancestral residence, and can reach the ancestral residence smoothly.

Then the deceased and the clothes he wore before his death were placed on the mourning frame, carried to the mountains, placed on the stacks of firewood that had been set up in advance, and set fire to them from all directions, until the smoke rose, the mourners wept loudly, and when the smoke passed, only a few people were left to watch the fire, and the rest returned.

After the deceased was reduced to ashes, the men used nine stones to make a grave in a circle shape with seven stones.

"What does 'Pu Zhu Yi' look like?" Both the stallion and I asked curiously.

"We really don't know, because no one saw it, just guessed." Ah Xi said.

"You've always seen the corpse, haven't you?" I asked without giving up.

"Ah Xi hasn't seen it either, only Ada and the Dragon King have seen it, so I can only trouble the Dragon King to explain it to you, but I also want to know!" Lian Rui said with a smile, and the big stallion completely ignored the eyes of others, and looked at Lian Rui's eyes straight again.

Grandpa dialed the firewood in the three-pot village, handed me his mobile phone and said, "I took a picture with my mobile phone, you can see it." ”

I took my phone and looked at it, and I see! The man had died of illness and was supposed to be parked here for two days and cremated after the ceremony was completed.

But the day before the cremation (that is, the day I got the Glowing Disk in the Void Zhai), the body was gone, and everyone hurriedly searched around, and finally found the body at the bottom of a mountain cliff.

Grandpa took several photos, and from the photos, there were many traces of snakes and insects crawling around the corpse, but the corpse became very shriveled, and the eyeballs looked the size of a ping-pong ball.

The stallion and I were silent after looking at it, this thing was different from the corpse puppet we found in the underground of Niuwang Temple before, because the corpse did not undergo corpse transformation.

What the hell is this "pinching Yi", I scratched my head in distress.

At this time, Lian Rui gave us the roasted potatoes and buckwheat baba and said, "No matter how high your skills are, you must eat." Let's have a good rest when you're full, tomorrow's road will be really difficult. ”

The stallion took it and ate it, and then kept patting the horse and saying it was delicious.

The Yi men outside have also finished taking care of the mule team, leading the mule team in, and they are eating around the other three pot villages.

In the long past, mules were one of the main means of transportation and economic resources of the Yi family, so mule keepers regarded mules as more important than themselves, and every time they went to a place to rest, they must take care of the mules first, and then it was their turn.

Everyone ate and drank to their heart's content, and after a while of noise, they each fell asleep wrapped in a piece of "Zarva".

The shape of the cloak is the shape of the "Zarwa" Yi name "Wala", which is sewn from the weaving cloth of coarse wool thread, with red and yellow teeth and blue lining on the edge, and a 30-centimeter-long tassel hanging from the bottom.

Zarwa and felt are the necessary clothes of Yi men, women and children, during the day for clothing, night for the quilt, rain and snow, cold and summer is not easy. When I was in elementary school in Nanbian County, I used to play with the "Zarwa" of my Yi classmates in my class, which doesn't look very thick, but the warmth effect is really good!

Several Yi men also lit two bonfires at the entrance of the cave, and they were going to take turns to keep watch tonight.

This is already an inaccessible mountain, there are many wild beasts infested, and people must be left to keep guard, in case the mule is bitten by snakes, insects, rats and ants, how distressing!

Lian Rui took off her armor, her armor was close to her body wearing a blue background colored flower shoulders, the bottom edge of the sleeve cage was inlaid with a circle of snow-white rabbit fur, the pair of jade rabbits on her chest who were unwilling to be oppressed stood up like a demonstration, and a layer of black cloth wrapped her slender waist tightly, adding a touch of sexiness to her extremely ethereal beauty.

The stallion drooled when he saw it, and of course I saw that although it was not as gaffe as the stallion, it was also intent. The character of the girl of the Yi family is indeed very bold, and Lian Rui smiled demonstratively at the stallion and fell asleep wrapped in "Zarwa".

We sniffed the smell of fresh mud and grass wafting in from time to time outside the cave, and fell asleep to the crackling sound of the campfire.

In the middle of the night, I vaguely heard the sound of the stallion turning over, and in a daze, I could only hear him muttering that he had eaten too much meat and had diarrhea.

I hadn't seen him come back for a long time, and I was about to get up and shush too, when suddenly I heard the frightened cry of the stallion: "Who touched my ass?" What is it? What the hell!! ”