Menglai Township is located not far from the border between China and Myanmar, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there are many plants left over from ancient times, which can be called a museum of living fossils. 【. 】

There are many tourist resources here, so our group came here in the name of tourism.

The myth of the Wa people is centered on Sigangli, and the Cangyuan cliff painting is the evidence. The Cangyuan cliff paintings are distributed near Menglai Township, so there are many tourism projects here that revolve around these two.

And many stores are named after these two, such as Sigangli Restaurant, Yahuazhai Store or something.

Of course, there are also some high-imitation names, such as Degangli, or the existence of what Gangli.

Some words can still be spoken in the Wa dialect, while others are purely arbitrarily named.

Menglai Township is an agriculture-based village, with rice fields, sugarcane forests, and walnut forests everywhere.

In addition, some wild tea trees can be found on some cliffs, and it is said that the tea leaves picked from those tea trees are more fragrant, and the price is several times that of ordinary tea plantations.

The first day I got here. We found a family to live in Menglai Township, this family was Cai Jun to help us contact, to this side of the phone call, people to the village to pick us up.

This man's name is Gengqi, which is a literal translation of the Wa dialect.

When I heard this name, I thought it was weird, and at the same time, I saw that he spoke Chinese well. I asked him what these two words mean when translated into Chinese, and Gengqi smiled and said: It is the meaning of Xiaoqi's father, Xiaoqi is my child, and now he is studying in Beijing, and he is the best baby to learn here.

Little Seven's father?

Seeing that I had questions, he smiled and said: This is the tradition of the Wa people's name, and the learning in it is deep, but I also have a Chinese name, called Quanfu, which I used when I was in Chengdu before, and I used my real name back after returning here. 【. 】

Later, I was introduced to the Naming Rules of the Wa people, the Wa people like to use consecutive names, and after the child is born, the first word of the name should be used to act as a generational character. For example, the first word of the eldest son is Ai, the words of the second son are Ni, and the first word of the eldest daughter is Ye, and the words of the second daughter are Yi.

Of course, there is a lot more order to follow. He didn't tell me much more.

Hearing this, I was curious and asked Gengqi, what's going on with his name, why doesn't he want to be ranked.

I asked this because I looked at his fate and knew that he was the eldest son in the family, and the eldest son's name should be Ai.

Saying more: This is very simple, after we Wa people become parents, our names must also be changed, and the way to change them is like this, take the words other than the generational participle in the child's name, and then combine it with the other than the generational participle of my name. Or directly add a change word in front of the other words in the child's name, which is the meaning of the father, and the mother's words are baa.

I thought for a while and said, "So, your son's name is Ai Qi?"

Gengqi nodded and said, "Yes."

Lao Tzu and his son appear in the same word in their names, which is definitely very rare in our Han names, it seems that the folk customs are different, and many things are also very different.

Genshi's home is on the outskirts of the village, next to the mountains.

On the way to the seventh house, I have already seen through his face, his wife is gone a few years ago, and the child will be very filial in the future, but because he is studying abroad, he is now living alone-

After arranging for us to stay, I asked Gengqi how he and the Cai family met.

Gengqi said that he knew what we were doing here, he had worked in a teahouse of the Cai family, and he had heard a lot of strange things.

And the Cai family treats him very well, even if he resigns and goes home now, the Cai family will give him a few hundred yuan on the card every month, saying that he is making him the contact person of Menglai Township and responsible for collecting some strange things. Yu Li stroked.

Or if someone has something unclean that needs to be disposed of, he can also contact the Cai family and let the people of the Cai family come over to dispose of it, make money, and even more can take a part of the benefit fee.

In this great southwest, there are probably not a few people like Gengqi, which shows how huge the relationship network of the Mingjing faction is in the southwest.

Maybe our Jinggu faction in North China can also learn to develop like this, thinking of this, I decided that when I returned to North China, I must have a good chat with Tang Erye and Zhang Shaojie, of course, the funding to support these people's activities has become a big problem

After introducing his own situation, Gengqi said: "A few guests, you are here for the strange thing that happened to us, just yesterday, the day before you came, we lost another cow in the village, and after calling the police, we didn't find any clues, saying that it was taken away by wild beasts-

But think about it, how big is a cow, how big is that monster that can silently take an adult cow away?

Also, the lumberyard to the west also had an accident recently, a lumberyard worker hanged himself with his belt, and before he died, he still used his fingernails to buckle a picture on the tree he hanged.

I asked what the painting was, and I said, "It's just a little man kneeling there, and there's nothing else."

Xu Ruohui also asked next to her: How do you know that he has a fingernail buckle?

He said, "Many people have seen the man's death, and his nails are full of bark and blood, not with his fingernails, what is it?"

Gengqi's Mandarin has some Chengdu Sichuan accents, which also confirms what he just said about his time in Chengdu.

After chatting with Gengqi for a while, we found that Gengqi knew a lot of things, and it seemed that he was a very down-to-earth person and did not take the money given to him by the Cai family in vain.

Seven more lost a few cows here, and how many people died told us again, the cattle are all missing, people, can find the body, and the way of death is not the same.

Some died of a heart attack, some hanged themselves, and some suffocated themselves in the basin when they washed their faces.

Of those deaths, except for the first one, which sounded a little normal, the others were somewhat wrong.

For example, the one who hanged himself had a painting buttoned with his fingernail before he died.

and the one who washed his face and suffocated himself, which was even more weird.

After saying this, Gengqi said very enthusiastically: By the way, you are not very familiar with many places when you come here for the first time, I can be your tour guide, wherever you want to go, as long as you say it, I can take you there.

We looked at each other a few times and nodded.

Seeing us nodding, Gengqi said again: It's not about money

I smiled and said: Don't worry, this tour guide will definitely not let you do it for nothing.

He smiled and stopped talking.

Gengqi's son is in college in Beijing, and the pressure is definitely not small, so it is understandable that he directly asks for the price.

When we arrived here, it was already afternoon, and it was evening after telling us for a long time, and when he saw that it was not early outside, he patted his head and said: Look at me, just talking, forget all about cooking, you wait, I'll get some food, it's all ordinary food, don't dislike it.

I waved my hand and said no.

After going out for a while, he came over with a pot of boiling water, then turned out a bamboo tube from a bamboo cabinet, took out a set of tea sets, and made a cup of tea for one of us.

After brewing tea, I said seven sentences: These are the tea leaves of the wild tea trees I picked up in the mountains, which are better than ordinary planting tea, you taste it, I just patronized and talked, and I forgot to entertain you, don't mind, people are old, and their memory is not good.

I smiled and said to Gengqi, how could we mind.

After saying that, we went to cook, and we tasted the tea leaves of the wild tea tree, which was really fresh and pleasant, and there was a faint aura in it, and the taste was about to catch up with half of the spiritual tea.

For dinner, we ate all the special dishes here, and the main food was rice.

Gengqi probably knew that we were from Chengdu and prepared some chili peppers for us, but he didn't know that we were not actually from Sichuan.

Xu Ruohui's words can be regarded as half Sichuanese.

During the meal, Gengqi told us about his trip to pick camellia, in which he mentioned that he once saw a huge footprint on the mountain, which aroused our interest.

I asked him where the address was and if he could take me there.

Besides, that was a few months ago, and if I had to go, I could, but he didn't know that the footprint was still there.

I said, whether we're here or not, we're going to have a look.

Cai Jun's information to us also described several nearby places, and after finishing speaking, I told Gengqi about those places again, and asked him if he could take us to these places as well.

After hearing this, Gengqi nodded and said: This is no problem, but there is one point, the places you go to are places that few people go, and there are basically no roads

I said, "It's okay, we have been to snow-capped mountains and deserts, and it's not a problem to climb the mountains here."

Everything was settled, we had dinner, and we went to rest.

The next morning, after doing our morning homework, we prepared breakfast for us at seven days, and before dawn, we had breakfast with the lights on, and drank a cup of morning tea, and set off refreshed.

Because the road to the west is farther, so we first drove to the west, along the way more seven said to us, Menglai Township to the east, the cliff there is the Cangyuan cliff painting, and on the mountain in the west, there has never been any cliff painting.

There is no one in the west, but in the information given to us by Cai Jun, the cliff painting appeared on a mountain in the west, and the mountain is not close to Menglai Township.

The car drove for a while, and the navigation showed that we had left Menglai Township, and the direction that the seven pointed us to was that we were driving southwest, and if we were to the south, it would be the direction of the China-Myanmar border.