Within a few steps, he and I walked to a house next to us, and there was a large number of people sitting in the house, eating and drinking around the table, laughing and laughing, until I came in they put down the dishes and glasses, and stood up together, not as surprised as I imagined, they looked curiously and said things that I did not understand.

I nodded and shook my head a little dazedly, I didn't know what to say at all, I unconsciously took a few steps back, only to find that behind me was an elderly woman, the old man was a little short, a little hunchbacked, but there was always a shallow smile on his face, I turned around and said apologetically, "Don't be embarrassed, sorry." ”

But the answer to me was more incomprehensible than their dialect, but it was then that I realized that he was sitting in a corner of the house with an empty bowl in his hand, and a bottle of wine in his hand, and was about to hand me the bottle, and I looked at her, and then at the table, and found that there was not a woman sitting on the huge square table.

At this time, as if seeing my confusion, the young man hurriedly ran towards me after explaining to the men at the table, and he raised his head to me while supporting the woman, "This is my mother, he said the most primitive Miao language in our Miao village, you naturally don't understand." ”

I nodded, and thought to myself, "You don't know the original Miao language, and I can't understand it." "But then again, this turned out to be a Miao village. So where would it be? Hunan, Guizhou, or Yunnan? Am I from here? It shouldn't be that the popularity of Mandarin in these three regions is not very high, most of them communicate in their own dialects, or they are like the young man in front of me who speaks Mandarin without a straight mouth.

"It's okay, it's okay." I waved my hand and watched him support the old man, and suddenly realized that this person was actually his mother, oh my God, why can't the status of a family mother not be on the table, but looking at his mother now supporting him, he can't realize the low status of this woman in the family.

I looked at this single room a little blankly, with patterns such as gossip, taijitu, lotus and lotus seeds painted on the beams, and the gods and generals painted on the door panels. The beams and columns that cross the upper part of the house are connected to the tenon and arranged in a wooden fan. The roof is decorated with sky-high cornices. Under the corridor hole, the carved dragon and phoenix are painted, how to look at how to look magnificent.

"Shizhong, you take this brother to see a doctor first, after all, it's good not to delay this kind of thing, in fact, it's all my fault, if I saw it earlier, I could have taken this brother to the hospital earlier." A man at the dinner table stood up, urging with a hurried look like the young man named Shizhong.

"Let's go! Friend. "Shizhong put his hand on my shoulder, the car is outside, let's go.

"Isn't it! So fast, huh? I looked at the things on the table and swallowed my saliva, but after all, I was an outsider, and it was not easy to make it clear, but their saliva was so obvious that his family couldn't see it, and happily watched me go out. I could only reluctantly give me a word, said hello to the people in the house, and walked out with Shizhong.

Although it is a village, it is not the mud land that I remember, we first followed the sheep intestine path in the middle of the houses, and then walked on the cement paving road from the mud road in the field, and when we walked here, the lot was relatively empty, without the blocking of the houses, I looked around and surrounded by green hills, they swept the clouds straight up and continued endlessly, and the green became the master of the space here.

And the vegetation here has a very kind of growth order, with bamboo at the bottom, thatch-like plants in the middle, bursting out like Kill Matt's hair on the mountainside, and at the top like pine-like plants standing upright.

And then they were built not on flat ground, but on the mountainside, and the houses were built one after another, but in a kind of stepped diagonal manner, and the lowest one was made of stone bricks, half of which were built on the mountainside, and half of which were overhung by pillars, and then on top of the house were wooden houses were sitting.

The houses in Miao Village are not like ordinary rural areas with clusters of houses, but there is a piece of a region, with only seven or eight houses, and the appearance of the houses is basically the same tile and wood plank house.

I talked to him a lot along the way, his surname is Yang Mingshizhong, the family just now is his relatives, what brother-in-law, uncle, uncle, this place is very small, and I like to be lively so every day they will get together, especially when you come, there are more people coming.

I looked at him and wondered, "Why?" ”

"Because you can drink." Yang Shizhong smiled: "You must have a good amount of alcohol." ”

I was a little embarrassed" How do you know. ”

"Guess it, you'll know when you come back and drink, brother." He smiled and put his arm around my shoulder.

Slowly I also know that this is the place is Kaili in Guizhou, located in the east of Guizhou, in the west of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, and the place where we want to take the car is Jianhe County, which is a county closer to Miao Village, but the car here is only one trip a day, and his friend heard that my condition is very serious and specially found a car to come.

After walking for a while, I gradually saw the car, which was a white minivan with "expensive h.c1655" written on the back box

"It seems that it is really in Guizhou." I sighed, how the hell did I get to this place?

"Get in the car." Yang Shizhong opened the back door and I stepped on it and climbed up, the back of the car is not big, but fortunately there are a few small windows, Yang Shizhong smiled at me and said Wait, we have to pick up a few friends.

I said a word and just sat in the car and watched everything outside.

At this time, there was a sudden bang at the other end of the village, and I saw a team of people walking down from the mountain. I asked.

"Someone is getting old." The driver said to me in half-baked Mandarin: "As long as someone dies here, people from the neighboring villages will come to pay for the funeral." ”

"Hmm." I nodded, this is no better than the city, because the development of the Internet has almost become a friendship on the Internet, so the relationship with the neighborhood is becoming weaker. But it's different here, they don't have any entertainment, so basically when they have time, a group of people will gather together, fight cocks, birds, play cards and have fun.

I came back to my senses and put my mask on the car window to look at everything outside, we are now opposite a primary school, let's say it is a primary school, in fact, it is an abandoned old house, there is not even a door wall, this primary school has only one class, only more than 30 people, I realized that the education in the rural and remote areas is backward, so it will lead to so many ideas can not keep up with the times.

Slowly the funeral people from far and near, the front of the people holding colorful flower umbrellas, followed by a few strong men with white towels tied to their heads, the strong men carried the coffin on the mountain road, the coffin was surrounded by a group of Taoist priests in pink robes, they stepped on the plum blossom steps, interspersed with each other, and passed under the coffin, and at the same time the mouth kept singing, just like singing.

The strangest thing is that there is a big rooster on top of the coffin, the rooster is motionless, staring at an old man in front of him, the old man is holding a stick made of white paper in his hand and constantly swinging and waving, walking backwards, while carrying a tree pole several meters long on his shoulder. No matter how rough the road is behind you, you can still walk on the ground, as if you have eyes on your back.

"That's Dingji. You must not have seen it. Yang Shizhong smiled, "Don't look at the old man, look at the chicken, is it standing motionless on the coffin?" ”

"yes." I was reminded by him that the real peculiarity should be the chicken, no matter how the wrestler carrying the coffin shook the chicken, it was as if it had been fixed on the coffin.

"Is it really condemned?" I asked.

"How is it possible, it was the old man behind him who cast a spell, because the old man, as a guide, was borrowing the power of the rooster psychic for the coffin."

"What do you mean?" As soon as I heard it, curiosity came and I hurriedly asked.

"That's right, the rooster's eyes can see the path of the deceased, and the old man is responsible for talking to the rooster with his soul, allowing himself to be used as a medium to guide the path of the funeral procession, you see if the front of the funeral procession is actually not the people with flower umbrellas but the tree pole on the old man's shoulder."

"Really." I leaned on the window and saw them passing me, one by one, some with children, some on crutches, and one with a beautiful girl.

That attraction to the male surname directly diverted my attention.

She was dressed in a minority costume, she wore a light-colored right blouse, embroidered flowers and birds, flowers and plants along the edge of the shoulders, cuffs and right placket, a long hair like a waterfall after the ice and snow melted in spring, and a slender waist tied with a silver girdle, like a fluttering butterfly in the crowd in the sun.

"I looked a little stupid for a while, stunned, this is your clothes?"

"No, but it's not. We don't wear clothes here until the New Year's holidays. The driver glanced out the window and seemed to spot the girl's presence as well. Look, isn't it the girl of the old Hu family? ”

"Yo! It's not like I'm playing with my boyfriend, but it's too nonsense to play at the Li family's funeral. Yang Shizhong grinned and said, "Young people now." ”

It turned out that it wasn't a costume! I thought in my heart that the most I could do was to wear gold and silver, but what kind of beauty would this girl look like if she was dressed up?

Suddenly, I felt a gaze from outside the window looking at me, and I looked at random at an old man who was looking at me on crutches, and his gaze was a little strange. I also looked at him, he didn't seem so obvious in the crowd, he was a little short in stature, and it was not easy to spot him when he was on his back.

It's just that he kept standing in the crowd, looking at me as if he had broken away from the movement of the crowd and stopped as he walked. The gaze is deep.

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