What appeared in front of Li Xiaohui and I was a solemn and simple building, just like what I had seen in the back mountain of Tsing Yi Village six years ago, countless ancient castles and watchtowers were built along the mountain, climbing rocks, looking majestic and majestic from a distance, the typical Qiang architectural style, from a long distance it makes people feel the impact of a foreign culture, compared with the high-rise buildings that are used to seeing in the city, it can't help but make people feel refreshed.

"Wow! Dead rascals, is this where you live? Looks so good! Li Xiaohui looked at the ancient village of the Qiang nationality in the distance and shouted in surprise, dancing and shouting at us.

Xia Yuanyang smiled bitterly and said to Li Xiaohui: "Little sister, please don't call me a dead hooligan again, let others hear me and think that I have bullied you, and don't talk nonsense in the village, my grandfather's temper is not very good." ”

Li Xiaohui's face turned red, and she pouted at Xia Yuanyang, but she didn't speak.

"Xia Mandarin Duck, are the white stones placed on those watchtowers and houses the sacred objects you sacrifice to the gods?" I saw that in the Qiang village in the distance, there was a white stone on the roof of each watchtower or house, which was the same as what I saw in the Qiang ancient village of Tsing Yi in the back mountain. Six years ago, when I watched it, I still thought it was strange, I didn't understand why there was a stone on those roofs, until I just listened to the legend of the Qiang people told us by Xia Yuanyang, I knew that the original white stone in the Qiang people still represents the meaning of the gods.

Of course, the Qiang people believe in many gods, all of which are symbolized by white stones. On the white stone pagoda on the roof, on the shrine in the house, next to the fire pond, on the hill outside the village, and in the sacred forest. The white stone on the roof represents the god of heaven, the white stone next to the fire pond represents the god of fire, the white stone on the top of the mountain represents the god of heaven, and the white stone in the field represents the god of the green seedlings and the earth. Some houses have multiple white stones on their roofs, representing other gods in addition to the gods. We need to make devout offerings to the gods of our faith in order to seek the protection of the gods. Xia Yuanyang's face was very serious at this time, as soon as he mentioned Baishi, the light energy on his body was completely gone, but he seemed to be a devout believer, it seems that the status of this Baishi in the Qiang people is really very important.

The three of us talked as we walked along the mountain path to Qiang Village, where many mulberry trees were planted along the way, and sometimes white wild silkworms could be seen on the leaves of the mulberry trees.

I was a little strange, because I suddenly thought that when I went to the ancient village of Tsing Yi in the back mountain six years ago, I also saw this kind of mulberry tree planted on the mountain where the ancient village is located in that fantasy world, and now I see this almost the same mulberry tree near the village of the remnants of Tsing Yi Qiang.

"Xia Mandarin Duck, why do you have so many mulberry trees here, are they raised silkworms and silkworms to sell?" I looked at the summer mandarin duck next to me and asked casually.

Xia Yuanyang was stunned for a moment, and then said with some sadness: "This kind of mulberry tree is called Yazhou Sang, in the Qingyi Qiang period more than 2,000 years ago, this kind of mulberry tree was planted all over the mountains and fields, and the Qingyi Qiang people used the silk spit out by the wild silkworms on the Yazhou mulberry tree to make Luo rope, and the mountain rich in this Yazhou Mulberry was named Luo Rope Mountain by the Tsing Yi Qiang people, and the Tsing Yi Qiang people established the Tsing Yi Qiang country with Luo Rope Mountain as the center, and the clothes made of this Luo Rope are the Tsing Yi worn by the Tsing Yi Qiang nobles. ”

"Alas, for thousands of years, Yazhou Sang is still there, but the Tsing Yi Qiang Kingdom is dead." Xia Yuanyang sighed, with a melancholy face, lamenting the glory and aging of the Tsing Yi Qiang Kingdom back then.

Li Xiaohui and I were also embarrassed, and we walked into this ancient Qiang building while enjoying the scenery along the way.

The first thing that catches your eye is the huge gate that is connected by two unusually tall watchtowers, the watchtowers seem to be at least twenty or thirty meters high, and the whole body is made of big stones, and I don't know how these descendants of Tsing Yi Qiang completed this kind of building without the help of modern machines, which can be called a miracle workmanship.

The watchtower gate was not guarded, so we walked straight in. As soon as you enter the ancient village of the Qiang nationality, it is dense, criss-crossing streets, dazzling, if there is no one to guide the way, we outsiders are estimated to be directly lost in it.

"Xia Yuanyang, why are there so few people in your village?" Li Xiaohui glanced at this Qiang village and asked Xia Yuanyang.

I also raised my head and looked at the summer mandarin duck curiously, since I entered this village, I have this feeling, a huge piece of buildings, countless houses and castles stand tall, but it gives people a feeling of lifelessness, bleak and gloomy. Except for a few old people sitting in front of the house not far away, there are basically no pedestrians on the street, and the whole Qiang village is like an old man who is gradually entering the twilight.

Xia Yuanyang listened to our words and said with some sighs: "In the past, there were still hundreds of people in the village, but with the economic development in the past ten years, many young people in the village have gone out to work or go to school, and most of the people who stay in the village are some old people or a very small number of children. ”

I was stunned, isn't the situation in this Qiang village the left-behind elderly or left-behind children often mentioned in TV dramas? I didn't expect that the descendants of that thousand-year-old country have now fallen to this point.

"Don't talk about it, I'll take you to see my grandfather, he is the Shibi in the village, and only he knows a lot of things from the past." Xia Mandarin Duck said as he led us towards a path.

"What is Shabi? A kind of position? We walked behind Xia Mandarin Duck and asked.

Xia Yuanyang didn't look back, but his voice came: "Shibi is a person in the Qiang people who can connect the world of life and death, and go straight to the gods. Shabi comes from the heavens, can communicate with the gods, and can deal with the devil, which is the same as the TV you watch and the wizards in it. ”

"Xia Mandarin Duck, your grandfather is so powerful! But are there really gods and ghosts in this world? I haven't seen it yet, and I don't know if there's really any of that. Li Xiaohui immediately said after listening to Xia Yuanyang's words.

I said, "Didn't you just see that little girl who crawled out of the body of a strange fish in Baizhang Lake, isn't that a ghostly thing?" ”

Li Xiaohui was stunned, with a frightened expression on her face, and did not speak.

Soon, Xia Mandarin Duck took us to a detached stone house, which was very tall, with a very large white stone on the roof, and a large bunch of corn hanging under the eaves outside.

"Xia Yuanyang, can your grandfather understand Chinese?" I asked with some concern, a little afraid that Xia Yuanyang's grandfather was the kind of old antique who could only speak Qiang, and it would be a lot more troublesome to communicate like that.

Xia Yuanyang smiled and said: "Don't worry, my grandfather used to go to school outside, but only later returned to the village to accept the inheritance of the old Shibi and become the Shibi of this generation." ”

Xia Yuanyang asked us to wait outside the stone house now, and then he went into the house, saying that he wanted to say a few words to his grandfather first.

Li Xiaohui and I stood outside the stone house and looked at our surroundings, and after a while, there was a sound of footsteps from the stone house.

Li Xiaohui and I hurriedly looked into the room, only to see that out of the head was an old man wearing a robe and a feather felt hat full of all kinds.

"Is it you who has been to the ancestral land of Tsing Yi Qiang?" The old man asked me as soon as he came out, his voice strong and powerful.

I was taken aback by him, I didn't expect this Xia Mandarin Duck's grandfather to be so burly and strong, and hurriedly said: "Yes, hello grandpa, I came this time to talk to you about some things about Tsing Yi Guqiang." ”

The old man nodded and said to me, "You are a guest, you can come in with me first." ”

Xia Yuanyang's grandfather entered the house after speaking, Xia Yuanyang glanced at me and Li Xiaohui, and the two of us hurriedly followed.

The light in the room was much dimmer than outside, and as soon as I came in, I could smell a strong smell of herbs, which made me feel a little unaccustomed, and Li Xiaohui next to me was even more choked and coughed.

I hurriedly turned my head to Li Xiaohui and said, "Xiaohui, I'll talk to this grandfather about something, if you don't get used to the smell, go out and wait for me first, it'll be over soon." ”

Li Xiaohui glanced at me a little embarrassed, then nodded, probably she really couldn't stand the smell of this herb, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you outside, you hurry up." ”

I looked at Li Xiaohui's voice, and I felt a lot more relaxed, there are some things I don't want to let the simple little girl in front of me know too much, that is not good for her.

"Sit down, introduce yourself first, according to my name when you used to study outside, my name is Xia Lei, and I am the Shibi of this Qiang village. As for what Shibi is, I believe Mandarin Duck told you. The old Qiang pointed to a small leather stool next to me, motioned for me to sit down, and then gave me an introduction.

I nodded and said to Xia Lei, "Hello Grandpa Xia. ”

Xia Lei waved his hand, and suddenly turned his head to Xia Yuanyang and said, "Mandarin Duck, you go out to accompany the little girl first, the roads in this village are complicated, don't let people get lost." I'll talk to this little brother about things. ”

Xia Yuanyang nodded, got up from the stool and walked outside, but when he passed by me, he whispered to me: "My grandfather is not very good-tempered, you should be careful when you speak." ”

I nodded imperceptibly, and thought to myself that Xia Yuanyang had already said this to us twice, and it seemed that the old man in front of me was not an idle person.

"Tell me, what is the purpose of your coming here?" Xia Lei looked at me and said lightly, his face was calm and calm, and he couldn't see the depth at all.

I was stunned, I thought he would be impatient to ask me about the white coffin, after all, according to the previous performance of Xia Mandarin Duck, I could guess that the white coffin should be a very important thing in their Qiang tribe, but the old man in front of me was beyond my expectations, he didn't show any anxiety at all, but preemptively asked me about the purpose, it seems that it is really Jiang or the old spicy.

I thought about it for a while, and then said: "My ancestor has a great relationship with your Tsing Yi Qiang, he has been in your Tsing Yi Gu Qiang's ancestral land three hundred years ago, and he found a white coffin inside. Then, he opened the white coffin with his hands......"

"What!"

Before I could finish speaking, Xia Lei, who had been as steady as Mount Tai on the other side, suddenly couldn't calm down anymore, he suddenly got up from the stool, his face was shocked, his eyes bulged out, and he said to me in a trembling voice:

"You mean, the coffin was opened?"