Suddenly, the wooden house became dead and silent again, and the cold air seemed to freeze instantly, tightly wrapping Gao Chao, making him feel suffocated, but he could only look out of the door in a daze.

After a long time, he got up and walked out of the room with some trepidation, and at this moment, he stood in the cold night, but as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but darkness.

Only then did he realize that at some point, a thick fog had risen in the villages between the valleys.

The fog was not white, but had long since merged with the night, wandering in it into a ghostly black fog.

The black fog is thick, the old grandmother has disappeared, who is she? Why did you go in such a hurry? Why did she leave this bronze drum alone?

At this moment, the bronze drum was still in Gao Gao's hands, but it seemed to have suddenly become much heavier.

-- When the day dawned, the cattle under the hut woke up.

As soon as these pigs, cows, chickens and ducks open their eyes, they will start playing the symphony of the depths of the mountain.

Just below Gao Chao's plank bed, several boars were in high spirits and engaged in some kind of early morning ritual, and the sound of pigs was so loud that he could not sleep anymore.

So he had to rub his eyes and get up from the bed, and suddenly he saw the bronze drum placed in the corner of the wooden house, he couldn't help shaking his head, smiled helplessly, got up and began to pack his luggage.

At this moment, in Gao Chao's opinion, the identity of this bronze drum must be a fake of Gao Laoba.

Although the ornamentation on the drum body is delicate and delicate, the workmanship is excellent, and the patina does not look like it is old, but the reason why the old woman disappeared quietly last night should have been very simple.

The villagers in the depths of this mountain have a low-key personality and are very eccentric, so when the old woman saw that Gao Chao had seen the imitation bronze drum, inside and out, she felt bottomless in her heart, and she was worried that Gao Chao would see the flaws and pierce her face on the spot, so she took advantage of Gao Chao's lack of attention early, and fled home silently in fright, even the bronze drum that she wanted to use to coax Gao Chao was also lost here.

This can also explain why the old woman prefers to ship and deliver things here in the middle of the night, because in broad daylight, if others see their age, and they still come out with fakes to deceive people, which makes those villagers look at it, won't it become a joke after dinner, which is an unacceptable shame for some elderly people.

In fact, this kind of thing is not strange to Gao Chao, but there will still be a little helplessness and disappointment in his heart, but he will not have any dissatisfaction and resentment towards the kind of people who are waiting to deceive him, because most of those people are poor people, and they are only forced to take out some fakes to try their luck because they are tired of life, and it may only be a few days of food money.

Thinking of this, Gao Chao will always feel a little uncomfortable, after the luggage is packed, he will think about asking the owner of the wooden house for a while, to see if he knows such an old woman, if he can still find her, Gao Chao thought that he still has to give her some money, after all, the old woman is old, and her hands are disabled, and she should be in a bad situation when she wants to come to the house, and life must be very difficult.

But when Gao Chao found the owner of the wooden house with a huge backpack and explained his thoughts to him, the owner of the wooden house couldn't remember that there was such an old woman in the village, he patted his chest and said to Gao Chao, there are not many people in this village, and basically every family is very familiar with each other, which family has a grandmother, which family has a father, he can mention it and say it clearly, so if he says that there is no such old grandmother, it is definitely not.

Hearing him say this, Gao Chao also felt strange, so he asked if it was possible that the grandmother of the village found this side, but the owner of the wooden house shook his head like a rattle, and repeatedly denied it, he told Gao Chao that the nearest village from here also took a day to climb over a mountain, and the mountain road was very steep and dangerous, not easy to walk, and the local prime of life came during the day It was very difficult, not to mention the old grandmother walking at night.

However, the owner of the wooden house also said that maybe someone's relatives came to visit the house, and lived in this village, and if Gao Chao must want to find the old woman, then he will help to go door to door and ask her, maybe he can find her.

Gao Chao thought that it was not good to be so troublesome after all, and even if he found it, but the old woman came to string relatives after all, if her relatives knew that she was still doing this kind of thing at her age, it would inevitably make the old grandmother feel embarrassed by another incident, so Gao Chao refused the kindness of the owner of the wooden house, gave him a few days to rent the wooden house, and walked out of the mountain with heavy luggage.

Walking in the mountains of northwest Yunnan and Yunnan, the clouds and mist are shrouded, barley and green seedlings are everywhere, when the breeze blows, the green ocean is flooded with layers of waves, a fresh and cold earthy fragrance, which makes people feel intoxicated, like a dream, superb and even feels, even the hard work of the trek, it seems to suddenly become relaxed and happy.

With snow-capped mountains in the distance, lambs in the streams nearby, and low clouds that rise from time to time, it will bring a refreshing drizzle, so he can only hide under the nameless trees by the roadside, light a cigarette and wait for ten minutes or so, and then he can go on the road again.

Although this trip was quite tiring and the receipt was not optimistic, the scenery of this beautiful northwest Yunnan also made him less troubled.

It's just like in a book called "Lost Horizon", when people come to Shangri-La, everything is beautiful, sacred snow-capped mountains, deep canyons, dancing waterfalls, tranquil lakes surrounded by forests, herds of cattle and sheep roaming in beautiful grasslands, mirror-like skies, golden temples, all of which have a suffocating beauty, but this beauty only comes from the heart.

That's right, if the human heart is beautiful, then we will see the beauty of everything.

――Before he knew it, Gao Chao had walked through two valleys and climbed over a hill, and on the way he met a mischievous child who went up the mountain to chop wood, and also saw a lonely yak or two, and the road was always getting farther and farther ahead of everyone, but getting closer and closer to everyone's destination.

When the sun had already set in the west, Gao Chao finally came to the town where man and god lived together-Bingzhongluo.

Bingzhongluo, is a small town on the Nu River in northwest Yunnan, the history of the town is quite long, only because the location is located in the mountains embraced, from here you can easily go to the surrounding villages and tribes, so since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the tea merchants on the ancient tea horse road have taken this place as an important stronghold, and the European race who came here from the West to find Shangri-La in the Ming and Qing dynasties also brought Western civilization here.

Therefore, in the area of Bingzhongluo, there are as many as five or six main religious beliefs, which are Lamaism, Catholicism, Christianity, as well as primitive religions and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as some more mysterious local folk religions. It will always give people the illusion of traveling through history and geography, and it is even more amazing that all this will be integrated together in such a beautiful place, and it is still so harmonious and perfect, so some people will sigh at its magic and call it the real Shangri-La, the place where people and gods live together.

In such a great town, there is only one main street, and the street is as old as the history of the town, so people affectionately call this street the old street.

The old street is not very long, there are many miscellaneous shops on both sides, and there are some seemingly depressed inns, but because it is very remote and inconvenient, few travelers come here to play, which also somewhat restricts the local economic development.

However, this is also a good thing, and the pure land that has not been infected by commercialization makes it particularly precious.

Although these inns seem to be depressed, they actually have some business every year, because there are still some outsiders who stay here.

Although most of the people who come to stay in the hotel are not for travel, they have their own origins, each has their own purpose, but these people also have something in common, that is, they are generally very generous, never stingy, so the owners of each inn will be very enthusiastic, good food and drink hospitality, the accommodation environment is also very comfortable, and when the final checkout, the tenants will definitely pay a lot more for the room, the boss is to collect all the orders, and never care more about anything about the inn tenants, the days are long, It's the norm here.

In fact, among these tenants who come to stay in the hotel, most of them are mud and sand, fish and dragons are mixed, which line of gods and goddesses have, but the most majority, but still come to the surrounding mountains to poach the hunters, it is said that the wild tigers, leopards and jackals in the mountains here are not a few, and the rarest and most precious is a kind of bear unique here, the local people call it the earth bear, it is said that this kind of earth bear is very large, extremely fierce, and very smart, but no matter how smart the animal, it can not escape the hunting of people, just because the fur on their bodies is really a treasure, It is said that the coat made of its fur is light and soft, waterproof and warm, and is mostly the favorite product of some noble ladies and ladies in Europe, so the coat made of this kind of bear fur is naturally very sought-after and valuable.

In this way, it attracted those coveted hunters, most of them traveled alone, occasionally in groups of three or five, although they are all from the north and south of the world, the mountain gods and forest monsters, each with magical powers, but when they come here, they must first live in these inns in Bingzhongluo, because here you can find the most crucial element of hunting in the mountains - guides.

Speaking of guides, they are naturally locals, and the locals are very complicated, there are Kham Tibetans who migrated here a long time ago, as well as the Nu people who have lived in the local area for generations, the Lisu people, and even the very rare Dulong people, but these people who are guides are basically Kham Tibetans, everyone calls them Kang Tibetans, and the residents of the other three ethnic minorities rarely do guides for outsiders, which has something to do with their ethnic and religious beliefs.

Although there are a lot of these Kangzang guides, it is said that there are not many guides who can take people into the mountains to hunt, because just a few years ago, some young Kangzang were bold, and they led several poaching teams that did not know the height of the earth into the Gaoligong Mountain in the west of Bingzhongluo, but more than half a month passed, and those people were not able to come out of the forest again, so there were several older and experienced Kangzang guides at that time organized a search and rescue team to take people into the mountains to search, but I didn't expect that more than half a month later, Only one person escaped from the depths of the dense forest of Gaoligong Mountain.

I heard that the only person who ran out had become crazy and delirious, and he only shouted one word in his mouth: Gabala, this Gabala is Tibetan, that is, the head, which means human head, and he is crazy and always repeats this word, he does not eat or drink, and he dies within a few days of running out.

Therefore, since that time, many Kang-Tibetan guides have not dared to take people into the mountains to hunt, especially to the Gaoligong Mountains in the western part of Bingzhongluo, and some other ethnic minority locals also hate such things, believing that the Kang-Tibetan guides have offended the gods in the mountains and forests, and have been subjected to terrible retribution and punishment.

However, in the face of interests, human beings will always be willing to give in, as the so-called heavy money must have brave men, as long as there are people who go into the mountains to hunt now, and the price is high, there will still be some young Kang-Tibetan guides who take risks and take people into the mountains to poach.

These young Kangzang guides would sit in the teahouse on the first floor of the inn and drink tea when night was approaching, and they would gather in twos and threes, calling each other like brothers, talking and laughing and waiting for business to come to the door.

They obviously have a strong interest in every outsider who enters the inn, and they will look up and down every outsider with those sharp eyes like eagle eyes, and even some enthusiastic Kangzang young men, and will take the initiative to greet outsiders, hoping to take the lead.

So when Gao Chao walked into an inn called "Drum" with the large and heavy backpack on his back, a young Kangzang boy came up to greet him cordially.