The place where we were spewed out of the spring formed by the underground channel was also in the middle of a mountain, and if we went a little further, we would roll down the cliff, and there seemed to be a large group of people under the mountain who seemed to be performing some kind of ritual.

The stallion and I took out our binoculars and took a closer look.

"Hehe, this time I asked you to buy a more expensive waterproof backpack, right? Nothing is broken! Ouyang, who are they? Looking at the dress, it seems to be a Miao person? The stallion whispered.

"That's right, it's indeed the Miao people, their clothes are very recognizable, the men are basically placket men's tops, a dress is composed of six parts: left and right front pieces, left and right back pieces, left and right sleeves. Most of the women's clothing is a light-colored right jacket, embroidered with flowers, birds, flowers and plants along the shoulders, cuffs and the edge of the right placket. I carefully observed what the crowd at the bottom of the mountain was wearing, and said slowly.

"The water in this underground river is so cold that it reminds me of when I was soaking in the Gongmu Lake, and my whole body was soaked and uncomfortable! Why don't you make a fire and watch it while roasting? The stallion said.

"The cold can only endure, big stallion, if you guess correctly, we have arrived in Miaojiang Apeng Valley!" I'm almost sure.

"Got to the Apoen Valley? This is great, otherwise I thought this was a folk village that was holding a party, alas, but in this way, it is really impossible to make a fire, the two of us suddenly appeared here, and now we are discovered, and it is unclear whether it is reasonable, especially the old man Ouyang also abducted their high priest. The stallion looked at his soaked clothes and sighed.

"Okay, didn't you bring a change of clothes this time?" I couldn't stand the feeling of being soaked and the mountain breeze blowing all over my body.

"I didn't bring it out in the car, I thought that this kind of small scene could be done in minutes, alas, Ouyang, I have something to say, although I didn't bring clothes, but I have a blanket!" The stallion stopped me from punching him in the head.

"Doro, doro, the cold wind freezes me to death~" In the snort of the stallion, we quickly took off our soaked clothes, wrapped ourselves in blankets, and were much drier! Then lie down in the grass and continue to observe the situation down the hill with a telescope in hand.

I saw more than a dozen Miao people carrying things on their backs one after another, and when they arrived at a stone pile, they put down their baskets and began to build two huge stoves with stones from local materials, and set up a large pot to pour oil into them.

Subsequently, they successively put the firewood they carried into the stove, took out a few large pieces of pork, put them in the pot and fried them, took them out and chopped them.

"Gollum!" The stallion swallowed, "Their fried pork is so fragrant, it's a pity that I can't eat it!" I laughed and said, "Hehe, who made your nose smarter than a dog, I didn't smell it." ”

"Damn, the more you smell it, the hungrier you get." The stallion yelled, took the dried meat out of its backpack and gnawed it hard. "Aren't you going to eat?" The stallion handed me one.

"No, I don't like to eat this kind of stuff as a last resort." I declined the stallion's kindness.

"If you don't eat and pull down, then continue to watch the show!" Said the stallion.

I took a bottle of water out and took a few sips, then set my eyes down the hill.

After the pork had been cut and placed neatly in a large bowl, a man wearing a blue and white handkerchief, a blue cardigan, and black trousers walked out of the crowd to instruct the villagers to place the offerings about 20 meters from the stove.

"Damn, this is some kind of ritual performed by their high priest, Badai." I muttered.

"High Priest? It's your grandmother's old job, right? The stallion wondered.

"Sort of, I don't know very well, when my grandmother died, I wasn't born yet, no wonder my grandfather could easily find some books about the secrets of Miaojiang and the like to show me." I sighed and turned my gaze to the sacrificial ceremony below.

A square table is placed with a bucket of rice, three pillars of incense and a hundred-yuan bill, on the left side of the bucket is placed two piles of paper money, on the right is a bundle of scattered incense, in front of it is a piece of cooked pork in a bowl, a pair of chopsticks are placed on the bowl, the same five bowls are placed around the meat, a small amount of liquor is poured into the bowl, and three stacks of dough cakes are placed in the gap between the bowls, two for each stack, a total of 6.

In front of the table is a lamb tied to the table, a rooster is tied under the table, and there are offerings not far from the left, and three pillars of incense are inserted in the middle, on the left of the incense is a piece of cooked pork in a small basin, on the right is a smaller raw pork in a bowl with two pillars of incense, in front of the incense are three pieces of bread, on the right side of the cake are two wades of paper money, and in front of it are two bowls of wine.

The person in charge of the fire just now put the red-hot charcoal in the brazier and brought it to Badai, who took out three "honey droppings" (bee wax) and put them into the burning brazier, and then began to hold the fingers and recite the scriptures silently.

"What is he doing here? What did you lose in there? The stallion asked curiously.

"Stallion and listen to me slowly, it is said that in the past, when a Badai was doing a vertebrate ox (the ritual is to do it, and then stabbed the cow to death), he was secretly destroyed by a person who can do tricks, causing this Badai to mistakenly pierce the javelin on a person's body, and later, in order to avoid interference with the rituals, Badai had to use 'honey' to seal other people's spells before doing all the rituals." I explained.

"Oh~~ It turns out that this is the case, he is worthy of being the Little Dragon King, and he is as knowledgeable as Old Man Ouyang!" Stallions rarely pat on the back.

"Stop talking nonsense, keep reading! I hope they finish it quickly, so we can go down the mountain to find the clues of the Golden Silkworm Gu!" I said.

"Yes, I almost forgot about business, our goal is the Golden Silkworm Gu!" The stallion ate several dried meats in a row, patted his stomach and said.

As if the preparations for the ceremony had been completed and were about to begin in earnest, the Padai stood in front of a wooden table, holding a bronze bell in his right hand and a bamboo basket in his left hand, and began to recite scriptures in the Miao language, reciting a hexagram every time he sang a paragraph.

There is also an old man standing next to Badai, who should be an attendant or something, who is responsible for picking up the basket on the ground and handing it to Badai, every time he looks at a basket, Badai rings the brass bell, and bows forward with his hands together with his hands together and bows three times at the same time, this process lasted for a long time, almost half an hour, and I can see that the stallion and I yawn for a long time.

"How long will it end, damn, I'm almost asleep!" The stallion stretched.

"Look, there's a change!" I remind the stallions.

The other Miao people began to kill sheep and chickens, and when the blood of the sheep and the chickens ran out, they put them in boiling water and scalded them and began to lose their hair, and then put them in a pot to boil.

After a while, two more middle-aged men carried two buckets of cooked rice to the altar, and the rest of the men put the rice, mutton, and chicken into separate bowls, and placed paper money around the offerings on the table and on the ground.

Since then, five bowls of cooked meat, four bowls of rice, a pair of chopsticks have been placed on each of the rice, a bowl with offal, hooves, and paws under the table, and a piece of pork knuckle on the ground in front of the table.

This chanting did not last long, and as everyone cheered and shouted, they began to eat the best of the cooking on the spot, and everyone must have been happily and cheerfully dipping in the aura brought by the high priest's prayer.

"It's finally over, it's almost time for them to leave after they've eaten, and we should be ready to go!" I said.

"Alright, get ready to act!" The stallion begins to put on clothes.

After we had watched the Badai ceremony for so long, the sky in the distance had turned white, and our clothes hanging on the low bushes were almost dry after the mountain breeze blew all night.

Within a few minutes we were already dressed, just waiting for the Miao people below the mountain to disperse and set off!

"Oh~~~Woo~~~Huh~~" The strange music sounded behind us, and the Miao Jiang Apeng Valley in the deep mountains resounded in the night sky, and the Miao people under the mountain stopped eating and drinking, and looked up at the top.

"Damn, how did the weird head and those bugs chase after me???" The stallion exclaimed.

"It's an open terrain, and those are small troubles, and there's a big problem, and that's that we've been discovered." I smiled bitterly and said, it seems that this trip to find the Golden Silkworm Gu is destined not to be smooth sailing.