The car drove close to the front and the two realized that the clumps of things hanging on the trees were not crows' nests, but corpses rolled in white cloth. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lao Wang stopped the car, opened the door, and the two cautiously walked forward a few steps.

At this time, they were only about ten meters away from the big tree, and when they looked up, they could clearly see that there was indeed a corpse hanging on the trunk.

Some of the body bags had shriveled, revealing the gray and black bones inside. Some of the body bags looked to have just been hung up, with bloody limbs wrapped under white strips of cloth - and some of them seemed to hang down. Vultures peck at the carcass.

This scene of hell on earth made Zi Yang and Lao Wang look shocked.

At this time, the Land Cruiser also drove over and slowly stopped beside them.

Su Rui and the others got out of the car and looked up at the corpses hanging from the giant tree.

Lao Wang said in a trembling voice: "This, have we encountered some cannibalistic barbarian tribe? ”

Rao is old Wang Yigao is bold, and he can't help but feel worried in his heart after watching this tragic scene.

Su Rui stared at the corpses on the tree, and said with a serious expression: "No, this, it should be a bird burial." ”

"What's that?" Lao Wang didn't understand.

Su Rui looked at the shocked appearance of Zi Yang and Lao Wang, and reluctantly smiled: "Don't worry, this is an ancient funeral custom. After death, the body is wrapped in a white cloth and carried by a special undertaker to a designated place in the wild, where it can be devoured by eagles or other birds and beasts. ”

"This, this is too exaggerated, what kind of hatred and what kind of grudge." Lao Wang felt a surge in his chest and abdomen.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and the corpse hanging from the tree swayed slightly. Like a huge chrysalis hanging in the air.

The white cloth on one of the corpses fell off, and the wrapped body suddenly fell down, and fell in front of everyone. Lao Wang looked down and hurriedly covered his mouth and ran away.

The corpse in front of him should have just died, and the muscles of the back, calves, and thighs of the corpse had been cut with several deep and long wounds, revealing the white fat and red tendons inside.

Su Rui frowned and looked at the corpse on the ground and said, "These wounds should be made by the undertaker, so that the vultures can bite and eat." ”

Ziyang said: "The Han people pay attention to death, although some ancient tribes have the custom of funds, but this kind of disposal of the corpses of relatives is a bit too unacceptable. ”

Su Rui squatted down and looked at the corpse, and said calmly: "The concept is different, the view of some tribes in Tibet on life is that the soul is immortal and reincarnated, and death is just the division of the immortal soul and the old body, and it is a different transformation of space......

Su Rui tilted his head as he spoke, carefully looked at the face of the corpse, and said unhurriedly:

"They believe that feeding vultures with 'skins' is the most noble form of charity, which embodies the highest state of Mahayana Buddhism - self-sacrifice and charity."

"What a strange belief." Ziyang suddenly remembered the old and young who had made a pilgrimage outside Lhasa.

"If you are a bird burial, should there be any rituals?"

Su Rui nodded: "Yes, it is said that the body of the deceased will be placed on the adobe in a corner of the house first, and then the lama will be invited to recite the sutras so that the soul of the deceased can leave the body in the morning sun, and after roughly three or five days, he will choose an auspicious day for funeral."

During the period between mortuary and funeral, the family members of the deceased are not allowed to make noise, talk or laugh, wash their faces or comb their hair, and must hang a red clay pot with a white hata around the door of their home, and food must be placed in the jar for the soul of the deceased to eat. ”

Ziyang seemed to feel a gust of wind blowing behind her head, and she couldn't help but shiver - it was too gloomy here.

Su Rui stood up, folded his hands, bowed his head, and said softly in his mouth: "Contemplation of the Bodhisattva, when you walk in the deep Prajnaparamita, you will see that the five aggregates are empty, and you will overcome all suffering......

Seeing her solemn expression, Zi Yang and Lao Wang hurriedly folded their hands against the corpse.

Ah Chong looked at the corpses without saying a word, and his already cold face became even more cold.

After Su Rui finished reciting the scriptures, he turned his head and said to everyone, "Let's go, this is not a place to stay for a long time. ”

"Now that we've come across a burial ground, it should be not far from the residential area—it's getting dark, so we're hurrying on our way."

At that moment, everyone drove forward, Zi Yang felt cold all over his body, and couldn't help but take a coat from the back seat and put it on his body, but it didn't seem to have any effect, and he could still feel a chill in his heart.

Lao Wang couldn't help but ask through the walkie-talkie, "What were you talking about to the corpse just now?" ”

Su Rui said: "I am not familiar with Tibetan Buddhism, but I know that this Prajnaparamita Sutra is the deep dharma of Mahayana Buddhism, and the scriptures recited in Tibetan Buddhism are the sutras and mantras of Mahayana Buddhism. So it should be right to recite this scripture. ”

"The burial ground is a sacred place of the tribe, and if we accidentally trespass, let's recite a scripture as a tribute to the deceased."

Lao Wang muttered: "You are a scientist who also believes in these? ”

Su Rui said softly: "We still have to give enough respect to these national traditions and customs. ”

After a pause, a soft voice came from the walkie-talkie, "The end of science is theology. It seemed that Su Rui was talking to himself.

"The end of science is theology." Zi Yang silently recited softly in his heart, vaguely remembering that when Su Rui introduced the secret history of the Nazis that night, he also said this.

The crowd was silent for a moment. The car jolted along the rugged wasteland.

Suddenly, a strange black figure appeared a few kilometers ahead, with a slow pace and a bloated body, moving slowly on the horizon.

Zi Yangxin suddenly mentioned it, what kind of strange "thing" is this.

Su Rui in another car also discovered this situation, and the two cars were one in front and one behind, one left and one right, staggering the distance and moving forward slowly.

Su Rui reminded Lao Wang to turn off the high beams and turn on the low beams. Don't alarm (offend) the other person - even if they don't understand what the other person is.

When the car drove closer, it turned out to be a strangely dressed man, dressed in white, carrying a corpse wrapped in white cloth on his back - no wonder it looked so bloated from a distance.

The car slowly passed by him. The man bowed his head and leaned forward, not looking at the crowd.

Su Rui said on the intercom: "Undertaker." ”

"In some tribes, it is customary for family members to send the deceased to the entrance of the village, and the rest of the way has to be carried by a special funeral director. On the way to the burial ground, the person carrying the body is not allowed to look back. ”

Looking from the rearview mirror, the undertaker was walking slowly step by step, leaning on his body and carrying the corpse.

I don't know if the direction he went was the hiding field they had just passed, that place was at least dozens of kilometers away from here, and at his speed, he didn't know when he would be able to reach his destination.

Against the backdrop of the wasteland, this sluggish figure became more and more insignificant, gradually disappearing from the field of vision behind him.

After driving for more than ten kilometers, a continuous mountain gradually appeared in front of it, and at the foot of the mountain, a village suddenly appeared.

The village is quite large, with hundreds of Tibetan buildings scattered along the foot of the mountain.

When the car drove closer, I found that these buildings were old, many of them were dilapidated, and at first glance they looked like houses made of stone or earth, with very low floor heights, and the doors and windows were much smaller than those in the Central Plains.

At the entrance of the village, more than a dozen people suddenly appeared to block the way, and these big men all looked stout and dark. It is a black face peculiar to highland people.

The leader was emotional, waving his hands and shouting loudly.

Lao Wang and Ziyang were dumbfounded, what's wrong, did you have to charge a toll when you meet a road rage?

They know that some of the tribesmen are fierce, and they look at this group of people, all of whom are five big and three rough, with fierce expressions, and they really can't handle it.

At this time, Su Rui, who was in the back car, got down and walked forward slowly to negotiate with the leader.

Zi Yang and Lao Wang were worried that this group of emotional people would suddenly lose control, and they were afraid that Su Rui would have some accidents, so they hurriedly got out of the car and stood behind her one left and one right to prevent accidents.

Xiao Hei also stood vigilantly behind Ziyang's side, as if he was ready to protect him at any time.

There is Xiao Hei in Ziyang who is a little more at ease, but how Ah Chong and Qingwen seem to be in the car as if they have nothing to do with themselves, it doesn't look like Ah Chong's style.

At this time, Su Rui and the other party had already muttered a conversation, the leader was a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, with a broad and strong figure, a circle larger than Lao Wang, with huge palms and thick knuckles.

The middle-aged man frowned and talked to Su Rui, looking at the two cars and shaking his head and waving his hand. However, the emotions are obviously not as excited as they were just now.

After a while, Su Rui folded his hands and bowed to the leader.

Turning to the crowd, "Get in the car and go back." ”

The two cars retreated for hundreds of meters until they saw a group of people turn into small black dots in the distance before stopping.

Several people gathered on the Land Cruiser to listen to Su Rui's account of the communication just now.

Su Rui said with a look of shame, "This ethnic group uses a very ancient Tibetan language, and I am gesturing and language to understand the situation." I thought that my knowledge of Tibetan was enough to deal with any unexpected situation, but I almost had a misunderstanding just now.

It seems that Chinese culture is really broad and profound, and I was a little arrogant before, which is really ignorant. ”

Lao Wang said, "Don't be modest, if even you are ignorant, then Lao Li and I are both single-celled animals." Tell me what's going on? Do you need tolls? ”

Zi Yang also said: "Isn't it that these people have never seen Han people and cars, and are afraid of what kind of monsters we are?" ”

Su Rui shook his head and said, "This group of Tibetans has still been in contact with outsiders, and it is not a special surprise that our appearance is not particularly surprised. The reason why they stopped us was because there was a ritual going on in the village, and no outsiders could disturb them during this time. ”

Lao Wang nodded, "Ao, scared me, I thought I was going to block the road and rob it, not to rob money." ”

Su Rui continued, "They want us to take a detour. ”

Lao Wang said, "If you take a detour, you can take a detour, who doesn't know what happens to the road in their village." ”

Su Rui frowned and said, "We must go into the village to find out the situation - this village looks very old, maybe there will be contact with the Germans back then." Besides, I always thought there was something strange about that burial ground......"