At this time, the driver also jumped out of the car to check the situation behind the car. There are two eye-catching green traces on the road behind, but the end of the trace is not a person, but a stone figurine that was hit by a car - the size of a real person, the stone figurine is not strong, only a layer of stone shell outside, the middle is all empty, and it was smashed into a number of fragments, and the inside is densely packed with white (the upper part: Feng Shao a horizontal + knife, the lower part of the insect word bottom) insects. Countless (upper: abundant and less horizontal + knife, lower part of the word insect) insects were crushed by the wheels, and there was a lot of green juice flowing from the bodies of dead insects on the ground, and that disgusting scene made people want to vomit.

The driver looked at it below, stepped on a few of them with his feet, and cursed for his bad luck, where such a rotten stone full of maggots came out of nowhere, and knocked the car into a large piece.

Shiryley Yang pointed to a stone chip on the ground from the car window and said to me: "Lao Hu, you see that this stone figurine is an imitation of the Han Dynasty, could it be a product of the Xianwang period?" ”

I nodded, "It's a bit like that, but how come the stone figurines only have shells?" There were so many insects in it, and it was crushed by the car, and it was not easy to identify from the appearance alone, so it cannot be concluded that it is something from the Han Dynasty. ”

I looked up through the car window and saw that the cliff was so high that I couldn't tell where it had fallen. Maybe there are some monuments on the mountains near here, it seems that we have entered the sphere of influence of the king back then. But why are there so many maggots growing in this figurine?

The more I thought about it, the more unstable I felt, so I asked the tea seller if he had encountered such a situation before, and he said: "There are more such stone figurines near Shalong Mountain, and they are all buried in the mountains, and sometimes they catch up with landslides, and occasionally they are revealed, and they are all overgrown with fat maggots." Some people say that this is an ancient humanoid coffin, but it is all rumored by the wind, and it is not known exactly what it was used for. The locals are disgusted with this kind of thing, believing it to be an unlucky omen and a sign of illness and death. I met it in the car today, and we are unlucky, and we will go to the Jade Emperor Pavilion in a few days to ask for a silver talisman to keep you safe. ”

I was worried that I would be overly concerned about these things, so I stopped asking more questions and only talked to the tea sellers about the local customs. Shalong Mountain is already on the edge of the Bai Autonomous Prefecture, with the Bai nationality, the Han nationality, and a very small number of Jingpo and Dai ethnic groups. The most lively festival is in March, when all men, women and children gather at the foot of Diancang Mountain, there are various mountain songs singing temple fair programs, very lively.

I was not interested in any of these things, so I chatted with him for a while, and then turned to Shalong Mountain, and I asked the tea seller about the terrain in the name of catching butterflies.

The tea seller said that although he was a local, the mountain range of Shalong Mountain was like a boundary monument here, and few people climbed over the mountain to the other side. There are a lot of poisonous insects and poisonous fog over there, mosquitoes breed, the valley is humid and stuffy, the miasma persists all year round, many people have disappeared there, and no one among the locals wants to go there. The other is that the mountain is too high, and there is a snow line on it, and the weather is changeable, hail, heavy rain, strong winds, etc., just now, it is still sunny and daylight, and bad weather will appear in an instant. If there is no large group of people, it is very risky to climb Shalong Mountain.

The driver had slowed down since he smashed the maggots, which were full of maggots, and he was probably worried that it would be bad luck to hit that kind of thing, so he tried to drive the car more smoothly; In addition, we have gradually left the dangerous road on the cliff, we are finally relieved, the fat man also came to life, just heard the words of the tea seller, and couldn't help asking: "Hey, what kind of mountain does this sound like the snow-capped mountain climbed by the Red Army back then?" I wonder if it's the same one? ”

I said to him: "The Red Army is climbing the Jiajin Mountain, which is not the same thing as this Shalong Mountain, and it is still far to the north. However, if you want to strengthen the study of traditional thinking, you can jump down and swim in a circle to experience the artistic conception of 'Jinsha water beats the clouds and cliffs are warm' in the chairman's poem; and then climb over Shalong Mountain, you can just take the Long March road again, climb the snow-capped mountains and cross the grassland. ”

The fat man said: "The soldiers' feet go all over the world, the four crossings of the Chishui surprise soldiers, the Wujiang River moat is heavily crossed, and the soldiers arrive in Guiyang to Kunming, which is all folding; If you want to take the Long March, you have to start from the beginning with a solid heart. You are clearly opportunistic. ”

While we were chatting, the car stopped, and the tea seller hurriedly beckoned us to get off the bus, and wanted to go to Shalong Mountain to get off from here. In addition to the three of us and the tea seller, there were two other local women, one in his thirties with a child on his back, and the other sixteen or seventeen, both wearing scarves and embroidered aprons. The clothes on their bodies are all white, and the locals value white, and they should all be white, but these ethnic minorities are not what we imagine they wear all day long, and if they are not festivals, they are not dressed in full costume; In addition, there are various ethnic minorities here, and sometimes it is not easy to distinguish.

I didn't want to go with these people, but the enthusiastic tea sellers told us to travel in groups and help each other in sparsely populated areas, and that Yang used to work with Native Americans and knew these local customs, and it was best for outsiders to abide by them, otherwise unnecessary conflicts would easily ensue. So he walked with the three men.

This area is full of high mountains and deep valleys, lonely, heavy mountains and forests, walked all over the rugged mountain trails, circling and twisting, it turns out that there is still a long way to go from the place where you get off the car from Shalong Mountain. I'm secretly glad that I didn't part ways with these locals, otherwise it would not have been easy to find the right path.

After walking in the mountains for more than two hours, I finally arrived at the foot of Shalong Mountain. There are no residential villages here, and some of the stone quarryers live a little further away. There is only one inn at the foot of the mountain that provides accommodation for merchants who come here to do the tea business. The two Bai women who were traveling with us were the owners of this Caiyun Inn, and they went out to buy things and came back. It's not easy to go out of the mountains here, so I have to buy a lot of things at one time, big bags and small wraps with a child, I learned Lei Feng with the fat man, not only carrying dozens of pounds of their own equipment, but also helping them carry rice and peppers; By the time I got there, I was already tired and had a sore back.

There was no one else in the inn except the six of us. The locals are very simple and never lock the door when they go out. There are passing guests passing by, you can live in it by yourself, there is water in the tank, there are bait cakes and rice in the pot, eat and drink enough to sleep until dawn, and put the money in the rice bowl when leaving, it has become a custom behavior, and no one will give money after no one eats and stays.

The Bai woman with the child is the owner of the Caiyun Inn, a young widow; The sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl is her husband's younger sister, a Han nationality, nicknamed Peacock, with big eyes, very lively and cute, and looks much better than the local women in national costumes. At the foot of Shalong Mountain, only they can rest and stay here, walk south from here for a day's journey, there is a kind of fog-topping gold-threaded tea, there are often merchants who go there to buy tea, and every time they pass by, they will inevitably settle down in Caiyun Inn.

The hostess was very grateful to us for helping her carry things, and as soon as she entered the door, she took a peacock to make tea and cook for us. It didn't take long for the peacock to bring out the tea, and the fat man took it and smelled it, and praised: "It's so fragrant, what kind of tea is this, little sister?" Is it Pu'er, a specialty of Yunnan? ”

The peacock said to the fat man: "No, this is our local mountain Wuding golden thread tea, brewed with the water flowing down the snow line, every tea leaf is like gold, you taste it, isn't it good." ”

The fat man said: "If you don't drink it, you will know that it is good, and it doesn't depend on who made the tea." As he spoke, he took out a cigarette and gave it to me and the tea seller, smoking while drinking tea, waiting for the proprietress to cook for us.

The fat man deliberately wanted to show off his knowledge in front of the peacock, and found another bag of Hongtashan, and said to the tea seller: "Brother, do you know, smoking also pays attention to collocation, we just smoked cloud cigarettes, and now change to Hongtashan, this has a different taste." In this way, there is a name in the capital, called to be Tashan does not fall into the clouds. ”

The peacock was not interested in the fat man's cigarette theory, but he was very curious about the insect trap we brought, and asked Shirley Yang, "Are you going to catch butterflies on the side of the dragon wall?" ”

Shirley Yang was unwilling to lie to the little girl, so he had to let the fat man come forward to explain, I was worried that the fat man would not be able to show his feet, and this kind of work of inciting the revolutionary masses should be done by me, a person with the potential to be a political commissar.

So I told Peacock that all three of us were from the capital, working at the Museum of Natural History, which specializes in collecting the world's rare butterflies. This time, I came here to catch butterflies, and then I wanted to make them into specimens and bring them back to Beijing for exhibition, so that those foreigners who came to our great motherland could open their eyes and see what butterflies in Yunnan were like. It can not only fill the gaps in China's research fields such as butterfly specimens, but also add glory to the country, generate income for the country, strive to realize the four modernizations as soon as possible, and create one brilliance after another on the new Long March of reform and opening up. From all angles, this work is a great cause for the country and the people, and it is a cutting-edge scientific research work with a strategic height, and its practical significance is no less than that of mankind's moon landing program.

Unexpectedly, my words not only made the peacock very excited, but even the fat man and the tea seller were stupid, and the tea seller asked: "Buy, buy, buy, Sasa, such a thing is so neat...... I mean, Master Hu, this butterfly is still so valuable? Then I won't sell tea, can I catch it with you? ”

Shirley Yang on the side, wearing sunglasses, listened to my nonsense about the peacock, and forcibly held back her laughter - looking at her, she really looked a little like a female spy of the Kuomintang, as if she was laughing at me and seeing how I ended.

I secretly said that this time I was overtalking it, and hurriedly said to the tea sellers: "Well, there is no distinction between high and low in revolutionary work, only the revolutionary division of labor. Whether it is pouring tea or catching butterflies, they are all for the construction of the four modernizations, and no one can do it without them. We are all screws of socialism, if you put down your job to catch butterflies, then we people across the country can't just look at butterflies and not drink tea, right? In fact, foreigners also like to drink tea, and the tea culture has a long history, and there are a wide range of tea culture lovers all over the world. Prince Sihanouk, an old friend of the Chinese, likes to taste tea, so pouring tea is also a very important and meaningful work. ”

At this time, Peacock's sister-in-law beckoned Peacock to help with the meal, so I took the opportunity to stop talking. After eating some indiscriminately, he went to the inn alone and used a telescope to watch the situation of Shalong Mountain. I saw that the highest mountain reached into the sky, and on both sides it were all steep cliffs, undulating and undulating, and there was no end to it, and it was impossible to tell whether the top of the mountain was gathering white clouds or snow. There are indeed a lot of clouds and mist here, and they are clearly layered, and there are wisps of green smoke and mist on the mountainside, and the higher you go, the thicker the clouds become, all of which are stopped by the mountains and condensed together. The mountain is light green granite, and the main peak of the entire Shalong Mountain is like a white-crowned and green-armored samurai, standing in the middle of the forest.

The forest and sea under the mountain are vast, and the waterfalls and earth forests are in various forms, creating a beautiful native natural scenery. The mountains and rivers in this vicinity are about the same as those depicted on the human skin map, and in the depths of the valley behind the mountains and forests is the tomb of the king we are looking for. As for whether there are dust beads in the tomb, there is really no certainty.

Thinking of the evil "scabs", as well as the maggots in the stone figurines seen on the road, I can't help but have a little fear of the "Tomb of the King" in my heart, but I have come to peace, and I have arrived in front of the "Shalong Mountain", so there is no retreat, and the only thing behind is to pray for the blessing of the master of the golden ancestor.

The tea seller will set off early tomorrow morning to buy tea, and after dinner, he will go straight into the room to seize the time to sleep and rest. The fat man and Shirley Yang also went out for a walk after dinner, and looked up at the mountains ahead with me. Before the tomb of the king was sacrificed, how to climb over this towering Shalong Mountain was a big problem, and when they saw this steep and majestic mountain, the three of them were worried.

At first, the blind man and the others found a local guide, and after a difficult trek to cross the snow-capped mountain, it was very dangerous to go up the mountain without a guide. But we just asked the proprietress of the Caiyun Inn, the locals who have been on this Shalong Mountain have long since died, and it is said that the mountain is haunted over the years, and no one dares to go up at all.

When we were at a loss for what to do, we heard the peacock say: "If you want to go to the valley on the other side of Shalong Mountain to catch butterflies, there is a tunnel under Shalong Mountain, which can be put down and passed through the mountain without going over the mountain." But there are a lot of dead people over there, and it's often haunted. ”