Chapter 124: Disguise
Hearing that Su Rui insisted on entering the village, Ziyang was a little embarrassed: "Although what you said is true, but Tibetans pay great attention to customs and etiquette. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Zi Yang was worried that Su Rui would be like Alexander in the desert, and he would take risks for scientific research.
"Yes, yes, you have to respect the local customs, you can't ride on other people's heads and, and besides, I think those people are all quick tempers, not easy to mess with, not easy to mess with." Lao Wang also began to retreat.
"Of course you can't break through, but there is always another solution."
Su Rui drew circles on his temples with his fingers, as if he was meditating, and after a while, his eyes lit up, and he said to everyone: "You go down, you all go down!" β
Everyone was at a loss.
Su Rui pushed and pulled Lao Wang, Ziyang, Xiao Hei, including Ah Chong and Qingwen, out of the car, and in the stunned eyes of everyone, he took out a bunch of things from the back compartment and stuffed them into the car. Then he said, "Turn your heads and don't peek!" β
Everyone didn't know what was going on, but Su Rui didn't look like a joke. I could only stand in a row, with my back to the car, staring in the direction of the village.
In the hazy night, I saw a few figures patrolling the entrance of the village, and it seemed that they were still watching everyone.
After a short while, there was no reaction from behind. Lao Wang was dissatisfied: "When is it, still playing tricks." β
Seeing that no one paid attention to him, he shouted again: "I'm hungry!" β
"Alright, turn your head." Behind him, Su Rui's voice carried a hint of mischievousness.
Everyone looked back, and their eyes lit up, and Su Rui had changed into a set of Tibetan clothes. A string of silk agate dzi was hung around his neck, and a pendant was crowned on his head. Wearing a snow-white Tibetan robe, it is wide and chic on the body, setting off the bright eyes and bright teeth, and smiling like a flower.
Brushing the hem of his skirt with both hands, he put on a dancing posture and said mischievously, "How are you doing?" Like Tibetans? β
Lao Wang touched his chin and looked at it: "Well, it's not like it, how can you be so beautiful as a Tibetan compatriot!" β
Su Rui said, "If I change into Tibetan clothes and use Tibetan etiquette to contact them, do you think they will be more acceptable?"
Isn't there a saying in China that you don't slap a smiling person? I'm so respectful, they can't bear to turn me away, right? β
Zi Yang said, "That's what I said, but you are such a big girl, you don't even know what the situation is in this village, so you rashly go deep into the hinterland......
"So, you're going to go in with me!"
"I ......"
"Fortunately, I bought a few sets of Tibetan compatriots' clothes in Lhasa, which I originally wanted to use as souvenirs, which came in handy, why, you refused to accompany me?"
Su Rui couldn't help but pull Ziyang and push him into the car, "Hurry up, hurry up, it'll be dark soon." β
Zi Yang stepped on the crossbar of the car, held the car door with one hand, turned around and faced everyone seriously, and said in a slow tone: "Everyone, please turn around." β
"Hey, a big man, and so particular." Despite saying this, Su Rui turned around and shrugged his shoulders with a smile.
Zi Yang changed into Tibetan clothes, Tibetan boots, put on a Zang hat, and fanned his arms like an old hen, "How big are the clothes you bought?" I'm wearing a baggy one, and it doesn't match! β
Su Rui smiled and bent over, "You don't just put on the Tibetan clothes like this." β
As he spoke, he walked up and folded his fat shirt into his waist.
Zi Yang stretched out his hands and silently watched Su Rui fiddling with him. In her memory, this was the second time she helped herself get dressed.
After putting it on, Su Rui looked at Ziyang and said, "Yes, like a Tibetan guy, from now on, we will be called brother and sister." β
Ziyang protested, "Shouldn't husband and wife be commensurate? Oh, Wang, isn't it?! β
Su Rui glanced at him, "You think beautifully!" β
Lao Wang smirked beside him: "Yes, ugly men with beautiful women, flowers with cow, it is indeed more reasonable for husband and wife." β
Su Rui took out a white Hada from his luggage, held his hands respectfully in front of his chest, held his head high, and said to Ziyang, "Wait a while, I am responsible for communication, you are responsible for drinking tea and drinking, now listen to my command, one, two, three, go." β
Lao Wang shouted behind him, "I haven't eaten yet, hey, I haven't eaten yet!" β
The two slowly approached the entrance of the village, Ziyang was nervous for a while, theoretically saying that slapping people doesn't hit smiling faces, but will his indiscriminate outfit make people look at the evil fire, emotional out-of-control or something...
The middle-aged man in the lead clasped his hands to his chest and watched coldly as the two approached.
Su Rui respectfully handed Hada to him, saying "Tashi Delek" in his mouth.
The middle-aged man didn't answer, looked at Su Rui suspiciously, and then turned his head and whispered a few words to a junior next to him, and the latter rushed back to the village.
After a while, a thin old man appeared at the entrance of the village, sixty or seventy years old, his skin had been tanned by the sun on the plateau, and his face was full of wrinkles.
Su Rui was even more respectful, his head lowered, his hands raised high, and Hada was sent to the old man.
The old man took Hada and said in a desolate voice, "Tashi Delek." β
Su Rui's face was delighted, and he replied: "Tashi Delek shu (fourth tone)"
The old man nodded, handed Hada to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man respectfully accepted it.
The old man turned around and motioned for Su Rui and the others to follow. The two walked behind the old man, and Ziyang touched Su Rui's hand and motioned for her to pay attention to her surroundings.
The old man led the group to a building made of earth and stone, pushed open the door and bowed his head and entered.
When the two entered, they saw a huge carpet in the center of the room, and an old woman with a square scarf wrapped around her head was pinching glutinous rice cakes in a bowl.
The old man whispered a few words to the old woman, and the old woman nodded to the two. "Tashi Delek."
Zi Yang followed Su Rui to return the salute and replied: "Tashi Delek shu"
The old man motioned for Su Rui and Ziyang to sit down. Su Rui sat on the old man's left hand, and Zi Yang naturally sat on Su Rui's hand. The old man rolled his eyelids and glanced at Ziyang.
After the two sat down, the old man began to talk to Su Rui in Tibetan, and the two asked and answered.
After a while, the old woman came out with a tea table and placed it in front of everyone.
The old woman placed the polished porcelain bowl in front of the two of them, raised the teapot and shook it lightly a few times, then poured butter tea and served it to Su Rui with both hands.
Filled the bowl in front of Ziyang again, Ziyang was just a little thirsty, picked up the tea bowl in front of him and drank it all, and nodded with the old woman with his hands folded in thanks. But I found that the old woman's face had changed.
Looking up and seeing that the old man was frowning, Su Rui looked nervous and gave himself a look, thinking to himself, Am I not respectful enough?
Su Rui held the tea bowl with both hands to his mouth and drank it a few times, then put half a bowl of tea back on the table, and the old woman filled it for her, but ignored the empty bowl on Ziyang's side.
Su Rui whispered a few words to the old man, and the old man nodded, and then raised his hand to signal the old woman to add tea to Ziyang.
Su Rui picked up the teabowl and motioned to Ziyang to learn from him, so he poured and drank three bowls in a row, and the old woman went with the teacup with satisfaction, and the old man whispered a few words to Su Rui, and also got up and went out.
Seeing the old man's figure disappear at the door, Zi Yang said softly, "Why did they look so ugly when I drank tea just now." β
Su Rui whispered to Zi Yang, "Tibetan customs, butter tea must be served to you by the master before you can drink it, and you can't drink it in one gulp, you have to taste it slowly, wait for the master to pour it for you halfway, and then drink it slowly...... You memorize one tip, three bites and one bowl.
Tea must be drunk three bowls in a row, only one bowl is disrespectful, Zang proverb: a bowl of hatred!
Drinking like you is very rude. β
Ziyang scratched his head and said, "It's over, did the old man go out to find someone to beat me?" β
Su Rui smiled, "No, he went out to greet people, and they want to receive us with Tibetan etiquette - don't be an old man or an old man, the family is the patriarch here, called Luorong Dengba." β
Zi Yang said, "Okay, the communication skills are good, just a few bowls of tea, from refusing to accept guests to hosting banquets?"
However, it seems that women cannot sit at the main table when the Tibetan banquet guests, should you stand behind me and serve me? β
Su Rui said, "The people here still have contact with the outside world, so they can also accept some foreign customs." Moreover, I respect them so much, and I still treat me as a guest. β
After a while, several old men came to the house one after another, all of them seemed to be highly respected elders in the village, and at the end, the middle-aged man who stopped them at the entrance of the village also followed.
A few Tibetan women brought out plates of steaming beef and mutton and a large pot of barley wine from outside.
Everyone sat around, the middle-aged man poured a glass of wine from the pot, held the wine glass above his head with both hands, and saluted to Luorong Demba, who took the wine glass with both hands, held it with his left hand, dipped the ring finger of his right hand in the wine glass, bounced it in the air, repeated three times, and then raised his glass to drink.
Su Rui gently explained to Ziyang, "I'll observe it carefully and learn from me." β
Zi Yang nodded, looked nervously at Luo Rong Demba, and quietly asked Su Rui what he was doing.
Su Rui said: "Tibetans attach great importance to toasting etiquette. Playing wine three times is a worship to the gods of heaven and earth and a prayer to the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. When people toast, you can't drink it all in one gulp, you have to take three sips and a cup, just like drinking tea. β
After taking a sip of the wine, the middle-aged man respectfully filled him again, and the Velvet Demba drank it again, and finally drank the full wine for the third time. Hand the glass to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man filled the wine glass again, looked at Ziyang, and saluted Su Rui beside Luorong Demba with both hands.
Ziyang thought to himself that he wouldn't change the wine glass, how unhygienic it was.
Su Rui didn't mind, he took it respectfully, dipped his right ring finger in the wine and played the wine in the air three times, and gently recited "Tashi Dele Ping Songcuo", "Ah Ma Ba Zhu Gong Kangsang", "Ding Duo Dewa Tuba Xiu!" βγ
The old man nodded appreciatively, and after Su Rui drank a cup in three sips, the middle-aged man toasted Ziyang, and Ziyang did the same, playing the wine three times to salute the gods of heaven and earth and the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, and then drank it in three sips.
The middle-aged man toasted clockwise around the table, and Zi Yang quietly said to Su Rui, "Drink like this in every glass of wine?" How long will this meal last? β
Su Rui also said quietly, "After the first round of salutation, you can do whatever you want." β
Zi Yang nodded and said, "That's okay, that's okay, but this place seems to be quite poor, people don't pay much attention to it, you see so many people use a wine glass." β
Su Rui said, "Sharing the wine glass is the greatest sincerity to us, only those who are close to each other like a family share the wine glass, and sharing the wine glass with you will seem to be an outsider, which shows that Luorong Dengba has a good impression of us." β
"Ao Aoao" Zi Yang nodded in a hurry.
Listening to Su Rui whispering in his ear, a warm breath with the aroma of wine hit his neck, and Ziyang felt indescribably comfortable.
Su Rui said, "You drink very much, this kind of barley wine has a very low alcohol content, so you drink this, you see you blushing like a monkey...... Guan Gong is the same. β
Ziyang unconsciously touched his face, and it was really hot.
After the first round of wine was drunk, everyone began to grab the beef and mutton on the plate, Ziyang was also hungry, grabbed a bite and chewed a few times, feeling that it didn't seem to have any taste, as if there was no salt.
Su Rui and Luo Rong Demba toasted each other and chatted in a low voice.
It can be seen that Zi Yang is not strong enough to drink, and the others did not persuade him to drink anymore, they all grabbed meat and ate it silently, everyone's mood did not seem to be high, the atmosphere was a little dull, and the middle-aged man frowned, as if he had something on his mind, and constantly forgot about the outside of the house, as if he was worried about something.
This awkward dinner party ended in about an hour, and everyone got up to say goodbye to the old man.
The old man ordered the middle-aged man to send Zi Yang and Su Rui back, although he feasted them with a very high standard, he still had no intention of staying overnight.
It was already dark outside, and although there was a moon, there seemed to be a thin layer of fog in the air, and the village was unusually quiet.
In this place, there is no entertainment at night, and it is estimated that everyone will sleep as soon as it gets dark, Ziyang thought to himself.
Su Rui walked slowly while communicating with the middle-aged man in a low voice, she said three words, and the middle-aged man replied.
Sent to the entrance of the village, the middle-aged man watched the two go away and turned back.
Lao Wang and the others had already set up a tent by the car, lit a bonfire, and when they saw the two of them coming back, they hurriedly came up and asked, "How is it?" it, drink! Damn, a big meal? Did you pack it back? β
rummaged over Ziyang's body, but there was nothing empty in the robe, and he was disappointed.
Zi Yang pushed his hand away and said, "Get out, I'm drunk, don't mess with me drunk." β
Putting aside Lao Wang's entanglement, he secretly screamed ashamed in his heart, he was drunk like this after a few sips of wine, it was so useless, he couldn't get on the stage, and he didn't know what Su Rui thought about this matter.
Lao Wang Yin and Yang said strangely, "I'm afraid it's because people are drunk if they don't get drunk, right?" β
The words are full of resistance, it seems that the instant noodles are not full, and they are indeed hungry, these two people went to drink and eat meat and came back without saying anything, and they also showed their faces, not enough brothers!
Su Rui sat down next to the campfire, rubbed his hands together and said, "The patriarch of the village is very polite to us, and it is not as difficult to communicate as imagined. But he didn't reveal anything useful, just told us very tactfully that a ceremony was being held in the village recently, so it was inconvenient to let outsiders in, for fear of offending the gods. β
"That's all?"
"I told him that Ziyang was me...... FiancΓ©, we have to go to the sacred mountain to worship, pray for the blessings of the gods, and fulfill our wishes. Please help us point out the nearest sacred mountain, temple, etc. β
Saying that, he looked at Ziyang and snickered.
Ziyang's face flushed.
"Yo Yo Yo, did the old man tell you that a flower should not be inserted in cow dung, this guy is not worthy of you, let you change people as soon as possible?" Lao Wang said sourly beside him.
"The patriarch told me that there are no temples in the vicinity, but there is a lama temple far away, and there are usually not many people who go there. The old man also told me that the climate in this area is changing, and the weather may get worse and worse in a few days, and advised us to leave early. β
Everyone forgot to glance at each other, the supplies brought by the team were not very sufficient, and if there was really bad weather, it would be a bit difficult to manage.
"I also talked to the middle-aged uncle about the situation here. They have lived here for thousands of years, before the liberation of the country was to work for the toast, work, after the liberation of the main herding for a living, this place is not a regular tourist route, basically few outsiders pass by. β
Ziyang said word by word, "Basically, there are very few, which means that there are still them." β
Su Rui nodded and said, "Well, if I ask the others, the uncle won't be very willing to deal with me." β
Everyone was a little disappointed when they heard this, it was just a small tribe in the middle of nowhere, and there seemed to be no unexpected surprises.
Zi Yang suddenly said, "When I entered the village just now, I reminded you to look around, did you notice?" β
Su Rui said: "I really didn't pay attention, it's actually rude for guests to look around-have you noticed anything?" β
Zi Yang nodded with a gloomy face: "Well, there is a red clay pot surrounded by a white hata at the door of several doors. β
Su Rui tilted his head and thought for a moment, "I seem to have a bit of an impression when you say thatβit's really weird." β
Lao Wang said: "What's so strange? β
Zi Yang said: "When we passed by the cemetery during the day, Su Rui said that this clay pot around Hada was from the time of the mortuary to the funeral, and the food was offered to the soul. That is to say, the clay pot is still here, and it has not yet been funeral. There should still be dead people in the house.
I have counted this small village, no more than 300 households, according to the calculation of 4 people in each household, at most 1200 people, such a small ethnic group, how can there be such a concentrated number of deaths? Moreover, there are so many corpses in the burial ground more than ten miles away, and a considerable number of them have only recently been hung up. β
When everyone heard Zi Yang's analysis, they all felt a little creepy.