Chapter 3: The Mysterious Drum Beat
"Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao, is it inside? Come out and have a situation! β
I felt that someone was calling me in a daze, I opened my sleepy eyes in a daze, and listened carefully to my teammate Jiang Yang calling me anxiously outside the tent, and I suddenly had a spin in my head: It turned out that the scene just now was a dream, and the scene was really real!
After more than ten seconds, I slowly came to my senses, patted my head, and asked Jiang Yang in a daze across the tent What was wrong?
Jiang Yang said: "The eagle and I heard a strange sound in the col over there, but we checked everywhere and didn't see anything, this is really fucking strange, what a strange sound, I don't know where it came from?" Come with us. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
I slept dizzy, and didn't answer Jiang Yang's question in time, but just told Jiang Yang: "Thank you for waking me up, I just got in a terrible ancient tomb, which was full of corpses, and they all cheated on corpses......
Jiang Yang saw that I hadn't come out for a long time, so he rushed in, took off his raincoat, sat on the shrinking chair, wiped his wet hair with a dry towel, turned his head and shouted to me: "Your uncle, you guess you're dreaming of a woman again, now is not the time to think about women, the eagle is staring at it in the col over there, let's take a look." β
I glanced at Jiang Yang and shot back: "your grandma's legs, what kind of woman do you want!" β
After saying that, I yawned hard, got up and opened the ventilation of the tent, and looked up to see outside, it was already dark, as if I had been sleeping for a long time, but I didn't expect to sleep so deeply.
Hearing what Jiang Yang said, the curious cells in the whole body seemed to wake up, got dressed, drank some water, dragged the body that didn't wake up, and followed Jiang Yang to the col to see what was going on!
As soon as I got out of the tent, I found that in the primeval forest of Xiangxi, the dark night was extremely dark, and the sky seemed to be smeared in the sky by boundless heavy ink, and there was not even a little glimmer of stars. We staggered forward with small steps with flashlights, and in the silence of the night we could only hear the rustle of walking against the leaves.
Jiang Yang said that the col was only a few hundred meters away from the place where our team tent was camped, but after walking for more than ten minutes to come to this place, I saw a black shadow standing not far away, it was another team member eagle, we walked straight into the middle of the grass, the noise attracted the attention of the eagle, and when he saw us coming, he shook his flashlight and said, "Come here, here over." β
When I walked here, I asked the eagle curiously what was going on, and in the dark, we only saw the outline of each other's faces.
The eagle replied to me: "We just heard a strange sound, so we ran over to take a look, but we didn't find anything, it's really weird, and I don't know where it came from. β
"You don't have auditory hallucinations, it's so quiet at night, where is the sound!" I turned around and asked.
The eagle said seriously: "It's true, we heard it so well!" Seeing that the eagle was so serious, I turned my head and wanted to ask Jiang Yang what the situation was, but I saw that he was already tired and paralyzed on the ground at this time, and he didn't say anything.
Hearing me ask him, but he laughed out loud and didn't answer me, lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and said to me, "Old Xiao, do you really plan to wander around the mountains for the rest of your life?" We are also a high-achieving student of the Department of Archaeology of Peking University, how did we pick up this work at the bottom, I have been here for a few days, every day in the mountain nest like a grandson, I haven't found anything damn about it, but I've seen a lot of animal poop! β
The eagle snickered when he heard this!
I know that Jiang Yang's situation is normal, because people who stay in the forest for a long time will show such anxious emotions, just like people who stay in the desert for a long time will get desert syndrome, not everyone is like me, thinking about everything and being at ease.
I clicked on the eagle to stop laughing, and said to him with a smile: "How interesting it is, it's better to go to the grave than to sit in that boring office and commute to work on time every day." Besides, many tomb robbers are now staring at the treasures underground, and when I was in school, my teacher said that protecting national cultural relics is a glorious mission and responsibility, isn't it? Jiang Yang ignored me, I was still smoking there.
Although I said it, I was also thinking in my heart: Lao Jiang's words are not unreasonable, in fact, we can sit in the comfortable office of the National Institute of Archaeology, holding a magnifying glass and studying a bunch of materials. Maybe it has something to do with my name, named Xiao Yao, the so-called person is like his name, plus the influence of the family's "Dragon Finding Point Notes", there is endless curiosity about these underground world and family stories, and this curiosity has increased day by day since the discovery of "Dragon Point Points" that summer vacation.
Seeing that the two of us were frozen and silent, the eagle adjusted the atmosphere and said, "Lao Jiang, I have a pot of good wine here, let's relieve your fatigue!" But Jiang Yang ignored him, and only said that he didn't want to drink his damn broken wine!
Lao Jiang took a flashlight and shone it on my face and said: "You said that my mother named me Jiang Yang, we are working underground every day, I have really become a Jiang Yang thief!" β
I quickly shot back: "Who the is a big thief, are we protecting the national relics!" β
After speaking, he and the eagle fell on Jiang Yang's body in unison, and said while fighting: "We are here to protect the national cultural relics, but we are not thieves!" Cultural relics are to be returned to the state. β
While we were fighting, a strange sound separated us.
Knock, knock, knock, a few sounds came from around.
Jiang Yang immediately got up from the ground and said, "Old Xiao, it's this voice, it's coming out again." β
The three of them looked around with flashlights, and they didn't find anything, but they felt as if they were nearby, and they didn't feel like they were not, but I felt in my heart that there must be something strange about such a strange sound in the primeval forest of Xiangxi. Suddenly, looking at the darkness around him, the hairs on his body stood up a little.
The eagle guessed: "Could it be that the mysterious Yelang Ancient Kingdom is in this deep mountain and old forest? β
"you, the ancient kingdom of Yelang has disappeared for I don't know how many years, how can you easily hear any of its voices! And the voice was so muffled, it seemed to come from underground. Jiang Yang poked his head around and said.
Jiang Yang walked over, patted me and said, "Old Xiao, this voice is weird enough, muffled but not brittle." β
Lao Jiang's words seemed to give me a reminder, and I immediately bent down and lay on the ground, pressed my right ear to the ground, listened carefully, and felt that it seemed to be louder underneath, so I beckoned them with my hand and asked them to lie down and listen.
I vaguely heard the sound of rushing water, so I jumped up, twisted my body and opened my mouth excitedly: "I'll strangle it, it's terrible, there seems to be the sound of running water down here, there must be a big spring water source around, it's a smooth land!" β
The eagle scratched his head and asked me, "What does this have to do with our yarn?" β
I was just about to open my mouth to answer the eagle, but Jiang Yang, this kid, hurriedly grabbed it and said, "You stupid, don't you know this?" The mountain is rich, the water is noble, there are high mountains and cloud peaks, and there is flowing water murmuring, it must be a dragon's lair! It is estimated that this mysterious voice may have something to do with some tomb, maybe it will help us find the ancient country of Yelang! β
I then lay on the ground and continued to listen, always feeling that this sound was familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere, but when the words came to my mouth, I couldn't remember it for a while, and suddenly a lightning flashed in my head, and I jumped up again and said: Isn't this the sound of drums, the kind of drums that we usually listen to when we listen to big drums, it should be the sound of drums.
Jiang Yang immediately asked me, "How can there be drums in this primeval forest, and what is the matter with this drum?" βγ
I put my hands on my waist, feeling that I was tired, and I couldn't explain it for a while, so I said: "Drumming, we can ignore it for now, but I am sure that there must be a tomb around, and it is very close to us, let's go back to eat and rest now, and set off to find it tomorrow morning." β
When it came to eating, it seemed that everyone felt hungry all of a sudden, so they hurried back, fighting and making trouble along the way.
The hungry tiger army pulled the trees and grass, returned to the tent from the same way, turned on the camping lights, took out the camping folding table, and prepared to start making food to eat, then he remembered the rabbit caught in the mountains at noon, and his mouth was greedy, but the matter of roasting rabbit meat had to rely on Jiang Yang, just because he was half a Xinjiang person, and he was the most powerful at roasting any meat.
If you want to eat rabbits, you need to peel rabbit fur, but this matter is a big problem for my eagle old man, so I handed it over to Lao Jiang.
I saw him holding the rabbit in one hand, holding the sharp short knife in the other, and cut a cut on the rabbit's body, and the rabbit skin was removed from the rabbit with five divided by two.
Jiang Yang neatly tied a few sticks together, inserted them on the ground to make a grill, and lit a fire underneath, and put the rabbit on the fire to roast it rubbingly, and the action was extremely neat.
Eagle and I glanced at each other, a capital letter, and thought to myself that we were really born in the "land of kebabs", and sang while roasting us.
One is our Anhui Huangmei minor, the other is Jiangyang's Xinjiang dance music, and the Kangding love song of the eagle's hometown, not to mention how hi!
After a bag of cigarettes, the rabbit meat was roasted, and I opened it to see that it was really charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
I took out three small bottles of two pots, and the three of them were ready to eat and drink, eating rabbit meat and eating and drinking, eating and drinking, but the dark night became instantly sunny and warm at this moment.
We blew on the bottle while eating, the so-called wine to the height of the fun, Jiang Yang also taught us to dance the Xinjiang dance, although Jiang Yang can only be regarded as a half-pull Xinjiang people, just because his mother is Han Chinese, and it is not like Xinjiang people at all, because you can see the dance, the dance is really a bad one!
After eating and drinking, I was already a little drunk, Jiang Yang was a good wine, and he was holding a wine jug and drinking happily to the fire, and from time to time Jiang Yang could be heard chanting Grandpa Mao's poems:
Life is easy to grow old and hard to grow old,
Years and years of Chongyang.
Now and Chongyang,
Battlefield yellow flowers are extraordinarily fragrant.
The annual autumn wind is strong,
It's not like spring.
Better than spring,
The sky is cool.
Listening to Jiang Yang read a song, I followed the previous one:
Life must be full of joy,
Don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon.
We drank Erguotou and ate rabbit meat, not to mention how delicious it was at the moment. Slowly, Eagle and I couldn't drink anymore, so we had to help each other back to our tent to sleep, leaving Jiang Yang alone to chant poetry!
I went back to my tent, but my head hurt a little and I felt dizzy and drunk.
But remembering the sound of the drum just now and the gurgling sound of the water below, he poured his face with spring water, and sobered up a lot, so he ran back to his train of thought, and opened the book "Searching for the Dragon Point Cave" left by the family with the help of the camping lamp in the tent, wanting to check whether there was any record and information about the Miao sacrifice.
When I was reading carefully, there was a sudden bang outside, and I was so startled that I walked out of the tent and took a look, it turned out that Jiang Yang was drunk and fell to the ground, and the wine jug was empty and sprinkled aside.
I walked over in a daze, patted Jiang Yang's face and called him: Aren't you known as the wine fairy? Why are you drunk after drinking so much, you won't let Lao Tzu carry you in. I patted his face hard, but I couldn't wake up, so I had to help him to sleep in the tent.
I went back to my tent, and at this time I had a headache and couldn't sleep, thinking about continuing to flip through the notes, rummaging back and forth, and making a few strokes on one page: the most sacred sacrificial vessel of the Miao people, the sun drum, which they regarded as the embodiment of the gods...... I thought to myself, could it be that those few drums just now are the sound of the sun drums we heard? Could it be that someone around is sacrificing someone? There were a lot of questions in my heart.
Looking at it, but the headache began to dizzy, maybe the alcohol came up, I felt a little sleepy, I looked at my watch, it was already more than two o'clock in the morning.
It was silent outside, and it was still a little cold in the mountains in November, so I zipped up my tent, wrapped my body in a marching sleeping bag, and fell asleep in a daze.