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The three of them stood on the edge of the rock, looking down, and there was a small river and several tributaries everywhere, and there were soil, crops, trees, grass, flowers, and grass houses on both sides of the river, which was a good pastoral scene. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sinkhole is surrounded by high mountains, the sunshine time is short, the sun is about to set at this time, the three of them are not in time to appreciate it, there is a road on the left, it is estimated that you can enter the village below, regardless of 3721, from the stone ladder down the broken rock.

Turning left, I never imagined that it was really an old village.

Behind the stockade was a strange but sturdy-looking rocky cliff where they had just stood, surrounded by bamboo.

Wu Cheng said: "The Hall of the Underworld, it's finally here!"

When I arrived at the gate, I saw a huge eagle carved by roots at the head of the gate, but if I looked closely, it was different from the common eagle.

Wu Cheng smiled: "Could it be that this is the legendary Hades Palace?

The three of them were discussing, and a head came out of the gate and looked out.

When the whole body appeared, it turned out to be an offspring, with fine skin and tender meat, wearing old linen clothes, about 20 years old, he looked at the guests, and said, "Distinguished guests, please!"

The three of them were taken aback first, couldn't close their mouths, and didn't know what they had touched.

Seeing the three of them hesitate, he said, "Your guest is invited!"

At this time, the three of the Wu family, the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, and people are not afraid of death when they want to be horizontal, and they don't ask much, Wu Cheng is in front, and Mrs. and Wu Zhen followed, numb and numb followed in.

But inside, I saw that there was a courtyard dam, and the dam was paved with stones, which was very smooth and clean. Behind the dam is a row of wooden and bamboo houses, and the house splits are decorated with fish tails, animal horns, branches, rattan grass, etc.

There is a small garden in the middle of the yard that smells woody and floral.

To the surprise of the three guests again, in front of the door of one of the houses in the middle, there were already five people waiting, and a man stood at the front, of medium stature, slightly fat, and of good temperament, about forty-four or five years old.

The four men behind him, one in his forties, and the other three were older, all wearing burlap clothes in primary colors.

Skirting the garden, four or five steps in front of a few people, the lady hurriedly saluted a few people in front of the door, or ghosts. Wu Zhen also hesitated and gave a salute.

Wu Cheng pressed the hilt of his sword, ready to draw his sword at any time.

The leading man gave a salute and said, "As soon as the bell rings, you will know that a distinguished guest is coming." ”

Wu Zhen wondered: "I don't know where the treasure house is?"

The man smiled, "You don't need to ask more, just talk slowly." ”

Wu Cheng was about to ask them if they were humans or ghosts, but when he said this, he didn't ask.

The man said to the boy who had just opened the door, "Send the three guests into the room." ”

The boy said to the guest, "This is the owner of the water village. ”

Seeing him say this, the three guests took off their heads and handed them to the kid, and the two masters only forgot to carry their swords.

The owner of the water village said "please" and led the three people into the big house behind the others, followed by the other four.

When I entered the room, I saw a round solid wood table in the center, which had been placed with wine, dishes and tableware, surrounded by bamboo mats, which were very refined.

Wu Zhen thought to herself, "So they were going to have dinner. ”

The owner of the water village invited the three people to take a seat.

Three guests, you look at me, I look at you, don't rush to sit down.

The owner of the water village saw the guest's thoughts and said, "You're welcome. Madame, please take a seat, too. ”

Madame said, "It's inconvenient. ”

The owner of the water village said with a smile: "In the place outside the Longbao Pit, there is no false etiquette, and all men and women can be seated. Madame, please take a seat, too. ”

As soon as I arrived at the raw land, the sweat was not dry, so I was invited to the table, and there was a big surprise, this is incredible, is it really this ghost drunkard meat does not take much effort, and it is done in a sigh.

I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse, and I dare not be careless or reckless.

After much hesitation, the three guests still sat down.

After a while, two girls brought water to wash their hands, and the three of them washed it, not daring to look at the appearance of the two girls.

Wu Zhen is in the middle, facing the owner of the water village, and the rest are seated in order, regardless of the guest host, sitting in a circle.

Lady Wu thought to herself, this is natural, but I don't know if it's human?

Only then did the lord of the water village ask, "May I ask the three daimyo?"

Wu Zhen made an introduction.

The owner of the water village said: "My name is Shui Rong, several old men, this is Brother Song, this is Brother Bai, this is Brother Gui, and this is Brother Shuihe."

Hearing this surname, Wu Zhen thought in her heart, "What surname does it all refer to?"

Wu Cheng saw that there was wine, and wanted to smell whether it was real or fake, so he picked up a wine cup with a bamboo root and sent it to his mouth, and Mrs. Wu said softly: "The lord is not invited, the guests are not drunk, and the rules are ordered." ”

Shui Rong raised the wine cup and said, "The guests are new, today is the soul banquet." Along the way, several souls had already learned a lot, and they drank this soul-summoning wine first. ”

The three Wu family were flattered by this treatment, and they were even more suspicious.

I haven't had enough food for a few days, and today I have walked many miles of road, and I have already been so hungry that my belly and skin are touched to my back, and I can't take care of a lot, and the three guests first dip their mouths, and the wine tastes very wonderful, and they don't dare to swallow it, and the host urges them to drink, so they have to hesitate to drink it.

Then please dish. Wild vegetables, offal, meat and flavors, the best thing to eat is a soft-shelled turtle, I can't name it.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Wu Zhen felt that the food tasted pure, and she couldn't notice any peculiar smell, so she said: "Dare to ask the owner of the village, where is this treasure?"

"It's called Longbaokeng, and I heard that people outside call it Tiankeng, but people in Longbaokeng never call it that. Shui Rong laughed.

Madame Wu finally couldn't help it, her lips trembled, and she said, "Is it the human world, or the underworld?"

When the three elder brothers saw her state, they all pursed their mouths and laughed softly, revealing kind and weird expressions, and the three of them were even more confused.

Wu Cheng saw that the three elders were smiling a little nonsense, and sent two punches early according to his usual virtue.

Brother Song said: "When I get here, where are people and ghosts separated." ”

Wu Zhen has a wise heart and an understanding of his heart.

Shui Rong said: "Talk while drinking." ”

After a few rounds of wine saluting each other, Wu Zhen said, "Which tribe does this belong to?"

Shui Rong smiled: "There is no country here, and it does not belong to any country. ”

Wu Zhen said: "Have you heard of Ba Guo, Hu An Mountain, and Gu Shi?"

Shui Rong said: "Hu'an Mountain used to be Tuba Mountain, so I naturally know that other people who came to the pit before said that there are Chu countries, Qin countries, and Shu countries, and they don't know where they are." ”

Wu Zhen thought to herself, understood, this place is isolated from the world, and asked, "How big is the pit and how many people are there?"

Shui Rong said: "I don't know how big the pit is. The whole big pit, there are several small pits in it, and I don't know how many people are in the pit, our pit is called Longbao pit. Between the pits, they are separated by middle mountains and low mountains. In the small pits, some are empty pits, and some are of the same tribe, and I don't know if they entered the Longbao pit together, or if they were there before. Even when chickens and dogs hear each other, they don't interact with each other for generations.

"I heard that some of the tribes in the pit are extremely friendly, while others are extremely vicious, and the language is not completely incompatible. Remember, don't run away, lest you lose your life in vain.

"I heard that within dozens of miles of Fang Yuan, there are hundreds of people, old and young. Longbaokeng, where our eagle tribe lives. ”

As the saying goes, wine is the mouth, Wucheng wine has been eaten, and he said to his mother beside him: "This wine has the same flavor as the wine of Tiankeng Prison Camp Guo Lao'er, but it is more pure and fragrant." ”

"Don't talk, listen to what they say. ”

After a few more glasses of wine, he couldn't care about it, and Wu Cheng said to his master: "This wine is very similar to the wine I drank before I went down to the pit, but this wine is stronger." ”

Madame hurriedly said: "My lord is talking seriously, what kind of wine is he talking about." ”

Brother Gui said: "This is an immortal drunk." It is brewed in the pit of Drunken Dragon Bay, the elder surname is chief, and the name is luxuriant. ”

Wu Zhen said: "There are also trees here, grass, and water?"

Shui Rong said: "It's from the outside." ”

Wu Cheng said: "What is the origin?"

Brother Gui said: "The ancestors of the chief family came to Tiankeng more than hundreds of years ago and specialized in winemaking. Here, too, he is the only one who makes wine. Legend has it that it was passed down by the immortals. ”

At this time, a woman came in to add water, and the three of the Wu family saw that she was about fifteen or sixteen years old, although she was wearing old coarse kudzu clothes, but she was extremely clean, with an apron tied around her waist, and only a pair of delicate log-colored clogs on her feet were very special, and they did not match the clothes on her body, obviously a slave girl, but she was born very beautifully.

Lady Wu was amazed: "What kind of mansion is this, and the slave girl is still so beautiful?"

Wucheng is the youth season, the fire is raging, at this time there is a lot of wine, not only forgetting the danger, but also forgetting the etiquette, but also in a daze, not turning his eyes for a while.

The woman added water to Wucheng, and when she saw that his eyes were strange, she glanced at him and smiled.

Wu Cheng felt bad and hurriedly closed his eyes.

After adding water, the woman did not speak, but went straight out of the room with the pottery kettle.

As Wu Cheng wished, she then came to lick the water a few more times. Wu Cheng thought to himself, even if it is a ghost, it is also a beautiful ghost.

After the wine and food were full, Shui Rong said: "Today, the three of you work hard, rest early." Bloom, lead the guests to rest. ”

It was the kid who came out of the gate to greet him.

Bowing and parting, Shui Hua took the three of them, went out of the main house, turned a corridor, and it turned out that there was a garden inside. Wu Cheng wanted to step forward and touch the body of the person named Shui Hua if he had the temperature of being a human being, but he was afraid that he would be strange and it would be difficult to start.

When I arrived at the right wing room, I saw more than a dozen wooden pillar and bamboo wall houses side by side, the craftsmanship was a little rough, and there was an old man waiting here, which was the first person I saw in the sinkhole, that is, the old man.

Shui Hua said that the old man is called Shui Min.

The old man said: "Please settle down here, and all the applicacies and utensils are in the room on the left, and you can use them at will." If you get used to it, you don't have to fire it yourself, you can eat with us. ”

The water people led Wu Zhen and his wife into a room, and the bags were brought in first.

Wucheng chose the closest one.

After thanking Shuihua and Shuimin, the three of them walked into the room of Wu Zhen and his wife first, but it was three entrances, the outer room was the living room, the middle was the empty room, and the inner room was the bedroom.

The lady touched the quilt on the collapse and said, "The furnishings are not furnished, but they are complete and clean." Where the hell is it, a human or a ghost?"

Wu Zhen completely relaxed at this time, and said with a smile: "I think, even if it is a ghost, it is a good ghost, you don't have to worry about it, it's useless to worry about it." Go with the flow, stay first. ”

Wu Cheng said: "It's still not to be careless, as soon as I come, I drink and eat, but I am already hungry, maybe all I eat is fake cakes and fake vegetables." ”

Madame smiled: "You are the only one who shouts hunger." You used to eat a lot, but today you just stretched out your ears to listen to them, and ate less than usual. It's a newcomer, so bear with it. ”

Again they will talk, and the three of them will sleep.

Sleeping until midnight, Wu Cheng's stomach hurt badly, and he said secretly: "Sure enough, it is poisonous in the wine and food." ”

The more painful this kid became, the more thunder sounded in his belly, and he wanted to go out of Gong, but he was shocked, and he hurriedly got up, woke up Wu Zhen and his wife, and shouted: "Poisoned, diarrhea!"

The lady said, "Your father has made two trips, but I am not unusual. ”

The three of them were talking, only to hear someone outside: "I'm afraid that a few people are going to be hungry at night, and they have prepared dogtail seed yam porridge." "It was the old man who spoke.

Wu Cheng came out and said, "I was poisoned, and I dare to eat your porridge?"

Shui Min smiled: "Misunderstanding. Dogtail grass seeds have been cultivated, which is what you call corn, one of the five grains, we are damp here, there is not much corn, you still don't think it's good? The ingredients in the pit are different from the outside world, or the cooking method is also different, the first time you come to Longbaokeng, some people will have diarrhea. ”

The night was quiet, and the witch lady could hear them clearly inside, and then said: "There is this truth, and it is often said that the water and soil are not adapted." ”

"It should be the reason that Madame said, just eat it with confidence, if you want to harm the three of you, you don't have to use such troublesome means. ”

Wu Cheng turned around from the thatched house and said, "It's much looser this time." ”

Wu Zhen was about to go to the thatched house again, and when she arrived at the door, she said, "Don't guess. ”

"I'm hungry, and I don't care if he's poisonous or not, and I'm going to be a full ghost when I die. ”

Wu Zhen and his wife said that there was no need for Xiao Ye, and Wu Cheng went to eat porridge with the waiting water people, returned to the room, and woke up.

Could this be the sinkhole that the people of Hu'an Mountain were so frightened that this situation was so incomprehensible that Wu Zhen and his wife began to feel no sleepiness at all, and they were looking for some topics to talk about; in the second half of the night, they were so tired that they fell asleep in a dream.

Nothing happened that night.

The next day, the owner of the village, Shui Rong, asked the three of them to rest more. The three of them were frightened all the way, they had a place to rest, they just wanted to sleep, they didn't want anything else, and they spent the day in a daze.

On the same day, it was fed again, and it was a wine and meat dish, called "Soul Stabilizing Banquet". In addition to several masters last night, there are two more elder brothers, both surnamed Pear, one is called Brother Pear, the other is called Brother Pear, and Shui Rong introduced that it is two brothers.

After a few rounds of drinking, the three of the Wu family began to ask this and that again, and yesterday the little woman and a few others still came in from time to time to add tea, deliver food, and do chores, and rarely spoke.

Wu Zhen asked: "In this pit, there is neither a country nor a tribe, how can you control it?"

Shui Rong said: "No. The people in the pit are free and free without control, and everyone takes what they need, and there is no monopoly or waste of anything. If there is a newcomer, let him choose where to live, help him build a house, and give him all kinds of supplies. I, the owner of the village, and the elders of the bays, just presided over some sacrifices, divination, mediated some entanglements, and organized some banquets. My position as the owner of the village was picked up by my ancestors. ”

Wu Zhen was surprised and said, "Picked it up?"

Shui Rong said: "There is a story here. Many years ago, women in Longbaokeng were inferior to men, women were in charge, there was no fixed husband and wife, and the children born only knew their mothers, not their fathers, and women were always in charge. Until one year, Yuzi and Zheng Bai came. ”

Wu Zhen said: "I know there is a. Who is Zheng Bai?"

Shui Rong said: "Zheng Bai is a leader of the Ba people. He just came to Longbaokeng, the female owner in his thirties saw that he was dignified, strong and healthy, and had the most abundant harvest when hunting, so he liked him very much, so he let him sleep with him, and the two of them were like glue, and they stayed together every night for more than a month. ”

Shui Rong next talked about a past event that had a profound impact on Longbaokeng-

One night, it was the night of the moon sacrifice, Zheng Bai was full of wine and food, and went to the main room of the women's village to rest as usual, but he heard the sound of men and women in the room, and the words were profligate, Zheng Bai was jealous and shouted: "A pair of dogs and men, do a good thing!"

Zheng Bai shouted as he drew his sword and slammed the door in, stabbing the two of them to the ground.

It turned out that when Zheng Bai first came to the Longbao Pit, he didn't know that they were this custom.

After killing the two of them, Zheng Bai woke up: After killing the female owner of the village, the people in the village will inevitably settle accounts with him, and his life is difficult to protect.

He was originally a hero, made a plan, and early the next morning, in the name of the owner of the village, summoned dozens of men and women in the village to Qianbazi.

Yuzi is also here.

Zheng Bai said: "The female owner of the village has something important to say, please wait."

Everyone knows that he is receiving the favor of the female owner these days, and believes it to be true.

Zheng Bai entered the main room of the female village, hung a bow on his waist, carried a feather arrow on his back, carried a sword in his hand, took off the head of the female village owner, cut off a sheet and wrapped it, mentioned it in front of everyone, and said: "The owner of the village please see one thing."

Zheng Bai opened the burden and revealed the head of the female village owner, and everyone was shocked.

Zheng Bai said: "The female owner of the village is bad and has been killed by me."

The crowd was even more astonished.

"From now on, I am the owner of the village, and I dare to disobey, with this example!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone dispersed in a hurry.

Yuzi said: "It's urgent, what should I do?"

Zheng Bai said: "Tang Zixiu lied, all the consequences will be borne by me!"

After a while, dozens of men and women came back, shouting loudly, each holding sticks and other objects, and surrounded Zheng Bai, shouting for his life.