One

Before the highway was built, there were two roads from the first line of Ya'an, Sichuan to Liangshan. The east road is flat, far away, and the horse gang; The west road drums from the water, crosses the skyscraper, to the bank of the Dadu River, all the way 200 miles, walks in the clouds, walks in the fog, and is a salt guest. That year, for an urgent job, I wanted to catch up with Liangshan as soon as possible, so I was greedy for shortcuts, and I actually took this west road.

On the first night, I lived in a small village at the foot of the mountain - water drumming. When the shopkeeper heard that I was going to cross the mountain alone, he gasped first.

"You comrade is not a little bold!"

I said, "I heard that there is only one road on this mountain, and you can't turn it!" ”

"Yes, the road is not turning!"

"More wild animals, I have a gun!"

"There are some tigers and leopards, if you don't mess with it, it won't mess with you."

"What are you afraid of?"

"You'll know when you walk. But I'm not going to let you go. At this, he was busy going to the door panel, and he put the conversation down. I thought to myself, how many times have I walked alone at night, and what are you afraid of in the daytime? A person who was born as a soldier has the second "Zilaide" in his waist, and he is not afraid to go all over the world.

At dawn the next day, the boss came to me with a bamboo hookah, coughing all the way, and shouted before entering the house: "Guest, Jiren has his own natural appearance, you can go boldly and have a companion." ”

"Where's the company?"

"I entered the mountain, and the second baby under the Tianshan Mountain last night walked over before knocking on the door, and I only heard it this morning."

I think that those who went into the mountains at night have now traveled at least forty miles.

The boss saw my intentions and nagged: "Comrade, this is the first time you have walked the skyscraper, and you don't know how hard this road is." My ancestors lived in the water and played drums, and I haven't seen a single guest enter the mountain. My store is not open in March, but it is open in March. The guests of Yanba used to be a group of thirty or twenty people, and they went back and forth every three months, and no one left on weekdays! Above the snow line, snow flies all over the sky, grass does not grow, and trees do not grow. The moment he sat down, his legs froze and stiffened, and he dozed off, and the snow was buried. The air was so thin that people couldn't breathe when they climbed there. There are more people, and there is a response to each other, and when there are fewer people, I am afraid that there will be more evil and less auspicious. Twenty years ago, a young couple ran down from Liangshan and walked to the straw shoe flat to live, and passers-by also had a place to stand and sharpen. Only then did the number of people carrying salt increase in number. But in the past six months, there have been two groups of guests who have not returned, and I am worried that Liu Laohan on the straw shoe flat has moved to Nanbazi, and the guests have to return to Sichuan from the east road. To be honest, if you don't know that the second baby entered the mountain in the middle of the night and has no companion, I won't let you go. You know, there's a more difficult road beyond the Straw Shoe Flat. This time, on the straw shoe flat, you will definitely catch up with him, he is there to visit relatives. ”

A family in the middle of the air aroused my interest. At this time, it was only more than four days, and seeing that there was no time, I forced the boss to tell me where they came from.

The boss snorted and smoked the hookah, and continued to talk in an orderly manner.

Two

Liu Yunhan is an orphan, and at the age of eighteen or nineteen, he followed the running guests into Liangshan with the goods. The kung fu runner is nicknamed "playing barbarians", and after entering the mountain, most of them are deceived and coaxed. As a result, he overturned the head of the Yi people, took him off and threw him into the mountain gorge. The remaining little Liu Yunhan, after several resales, fell to a small branch of Luo Hong's family to become a pot Zhuang baby[note 1]. There are only six Ziyi families in this small branch[note 2], and there is another girl named Luo Hong Axia, who is two years younger than Guozhuang Wazi.

The baby revolves around the pot all day long. Collect firewood, carry water, and burn artichokes. Ah Xia sat in the sunny place and snapped [note 3], her eyes flashing back and forth, and she missed the baby.

"Baby, this artichoke can't be burned through."

"How can it not be thorough, I can't even take it."

"Baby, you beat my braids so loosely!"

"Ho! No matter how tight it is, the scalp will be torn. ”

But no, Ah Xia said, "Otherwise, I will go and tell my father to tell you to kneel on the snow all night and pour cold water on your head!" ”

The baby has seen it, once Bai Yi was drunk on the door, and when he saw that Ah Xia did not get off the horse, Luo Hong asked him to kneel in the snow all night. Not only did he pour cold water on his head, but he also had to hold an iron plough stick in his hand. Is there any way, if you fall into this ghost place, the Heavenly King God has also lost its spell.

After the beginning of spring, Luo Hong asked the baby to go to the roots of the garden. When she ran into a leopard on the way, she lost her pickaxe. He squatted on the sunny slope and worried: if you can't run, who has heard that a slave sold into the mountains has ever run out? Don't say that the Han people, even if the Yi people run out of this house, they will fall into that family.

"Huh...... "......A string of songs behind the mountain, Ah Xia held a handful of flowers and turned out with a pink embroidered collar. The baby wanted to hide, but it was too late, so he turned his face away.

"Good baby, if you don't salute when you see the master's house, you have to turn your back!" Ah Xia said with a calm face, "I'll tell Daddy!" ”

"Get out, get out, get out!" The baby turned her face angrily, "Go sue, go sue!" Lao Tzu has only one death anyway, and it is better to die than to live with you, a barbarian! ”

Ah Xia took a step back, opened her eyes wide, and looked at him. Instead, he asked softly: "Baby, why are you crying?" Homesick? ”

“……？”

"Ah, I see, lost the pickaxe?" Seeing that the baby was in a hurry like this, Ah Xia sneered and laughed, "Silly doll, what are you afraid of, don't talk about it when you go back." Hold me the flowers. ”

The baby hung her head and followed back. Who knew that after waiting for a day, two days, three days, Lao Hei Yi never mentioned the matter of the pickaxe. On the sixth day, Hei Yi was going to hunt, and Ah Xia was also clamoring to prepare horses. Old Hei Yi smiled and said, "Baby, don't prepare her horse." The last time you gave her a pickaxe to shoot a rabbit, the rabbit didn't hit it, and she threw my pickaxe into the mountain stream. If I miss this time, I'm afraid I'll even throw my horse. ”

The baby was surprised and delighted, and he looked at Ah Xia with gratitude. Ah Xia blushed and smiled behind Hei Yi's back. Alas, this smile brought disaster to the baby again. Otherwise, how dare he recklessly touch Ah Xia's face when he was braiding!

"Baby, you are so bold!" Ah Xia stood up, flicked her pleated skirt, and rushed out of the house, and then a series of roars from Lao Heiyi came from the courtyard.

"Get down on your knees! Your Han family doesn't endure hardships and doesn't know the rules! Are you the Heavenly Bodhisattva who touched my Axia? [note 4]

The baby knew that Ah Xia spoke and turned a corner, and even said, "I didn't mean to." ”

"I'm going to kill you on purpose! Do you want to kneel? Ah Xia said with a tense face, "Kneel down, you'll know next time." The head of the master's house is not moved by the baby. ”

The next day, Ah Xia seemed to have nothing happened, still sitting in the sunny place, shouting with a pair of big eyes. "Baby, to the east!" "Baby, to the west." The baby doesn't make a sound, what is it called, but it doesn't raise its eyelids - you support your hands and feet, and you can't support your mind! From now on, don't even think about looking at my smiling face!

On October 24, there was a Meng dance party on the Daoshan Dam[note 5], and Lao Heiyi rushed to the meeting with two white Yi in the early morning. Before leaving, he instructed the baby to come back from a few trees and spin a bowl and spoon for the craftsman[note 6] When the baby went up the mountain with an axe on his back, the sun was on his head. It's strange, why didn't you hear Ah Xia's call in the morning? After passing the forest, in the bushes on the right, he saw a figure flashing and squatting down, and then he knew that she had made up her mind to make trouble, so he didn't look back, and went straight to the depths. Seeing that she was about to reach the other end of the woods, her footsteps rattled behind her again. He was furious, threw the axe, sat down on the spot, turned back and shouted, "Say, what do you want?" If you don't mess with you, you will come to provoke people, and if you touch you, you will raise your mouth and sue this and that. Am I joking with you? ”

Ah Xia didn't say a word, walked to the opposite side and sat down, covered her face with both hands, and threw herself into his arms.

"What are you doing?" The baby pushed her away angrily.

"You, you don't understand anything!" Ah Xia cried and fell on top of him again, buried her head and said, "At home, you can do your hands and feet, I won't scare you, the devil knows what stupid things you are going to do!" Do you know that our Yi family has rules? Han Wazi stole the Yi girl, and both of them had to be wrapped up in cowhide and buried alive! ”

When the baby heard this, she was really stunned, and hurriedly retracted her hand. She raised her head, blushed and said, "Baby, I gave myself to you, what you want, I will depend on you." She kissed him hard, kissed him again, and according to the customs of the Yi people, lifted her skirt to cover her face......

The baby hugged Ah Xia tightly, kissed her eyebrows, and kissed her eyes. Asked her: "Little enemy, are you not afraid of death?" ”

"Die together!"

"I'm going to be afraid of death!"

"You can't fool my eyes. I'm afraid of death, so I ignore him! ”

The baby kissed her again. She pushed him, sat up, pulled her hair, and asked him, "Baby, do you know that I have a husband besides you." ”

"What, you're married?"

"I've been married for two years, and that doll is eight years old this year," she grabbed a longevity stick, wrapped it around her fingers, and said coldly as if talking about someone else's business: "The year I got married, I lived there for three months, and that ghost baby, dragging his nose, didn't know how to wear clothes, but he knew that men wanted to beat their wives!" I burned an artichoke, and he told me to lie down in front of a room of relatives, and rode on top of me and knocked me on the skull with a wooden doll in his hand. ”

"How can your father be willing to treat you like this!"

"That baby's family is a big black Yi, with 400 white Yi and 60 foreign guns. If you don't marry, you can't beat them. ”

"His son is so young, what is he doing with his daughter-in-law?"

"My father has good marksmanship and has become a relative, so he has to shoot for him! What is he afraid of, it is better for his son to marry a younger one when he is older, and he will have a few more relatives and fight against each other, and his voice will be greater. My father-in-law has seven wives. ”

"You're not going back?"

"My mother-in-law's house fights ghosts, and I go back when I put it up, and I don't usually go." [note 7]

"What about later?"

"We'll die together in the future."

The baby hugged her tightly again. No one heard it, and the shouts were approaching from all directions. It turned out that Ah Xia's mother-in-law's uncle brought someone to pick up Ah Xia as a pendulum, but he didn't find anyone at home, so he led people again, picked up a gun, and touched here......

By the time Lao Heiyi arrived, the baby and Ah Xia had already been tied up.

"Tomorrow, wrap them in cowhides and put them to death!" The uncle gritted his teeth, fiddled with a German pistol in his hand, and said to Lao Heiyi. "You have to bring three thousand pieces of silver to my house to wash your shame, and tomorrow will not be enough, and the day after tomorrow we will come to wash the mountain." [note 8]

Ah Xia and the baby were tied up and brought back. Old Hei Yi whipped the two young men with a leather whip. As he beat him, he suddenly threw down the leather whip, hugged his head and cried for a while. He was stunned for a moment, and then staggered out. In a moment's time, smoke and fire broke out on the roofs of the six Baiyi houses, and the villagers cried and screamed, and chickens and dogs bited. When Lao Heiyi came back, his face was full of sweat, and he picked open Ah Xia's rope with a knife, and shouted: "Girl, stand up and run for your life!" ”

"Daddy, you're ......"

"I'm old, and I can't survive. I let all the Bai Yi babies go, the stockade burned, and I fought to death. ”

In this way, a fierce horse carried two young men out of Liangshan overnight. But where is their foothold? The Yi people saw the Yi people chasing, the Han people saw the Han people fighting, the government arrested them, and the landlord stopped them. The squires who had established themselves in the region knew how much silver a pair of slaves could be exchanged for in the mountains. To reduce the target, they threw the horses away. Walking day and night, I rushed all the way to the north, wanting to cross the skyscraper peak to the west of Sichuan. During the wax moon, a group of impoverished Yanba guests rescued these two people who were tightly hugged together and abandoned by the evil gods of heaven and earth in the straw shoe pile.

After waking up, the Yanba guests gave the two young people an idea around the wildfire: "I can't go to the west of Sichuan, think about it, can we stay, can we still carry the salt to the side?" It's better to build a thatched hut on the straw shoe flat where the six gods don't ask! We also have a place to settle back and forth, and everyone can help you with your rations. As long as you work harder, are you afraid that you won't be able to survive? Don't look at the mountains and the cold weather, I'm afraid it's better than guarding those government jackals. ”

Three

Good mountain! If you don't walk this mountain, you would never have imagined that there are so many colors in the world. Let's just talk about green, the bamboo on the hillside is translucent green, the poplar leaves are bright green like glass, the cypress trees in the depths of the big forest are dark green, and the sunlit masson pine is golden green. There is also water, the trees and grass reflected in the water, and there is another green. Suddenly, a blooming red camellia tree flashed out of the green bushes, like a fire in the deep sea. In the grass, in the depths of the forest, from time to time there is the sound of an alarmed animal running away, and the cold flashes from the eyes, and jumps over to something yellow-haired, scary is scary, but it also makes you forget fatigue and lose loneliness. Before you know it, the sun is crawling to the top. The whole body is hot, and the fur coat and small padded jacket have all become a burden...... I think the owner described the mountain a bit too much.

Gradually, the leaves turned yellow and the grass was less, as if from midsummer to late autumn. The edge of the forest was exposed, and under the slope at the feet, white clouds hung up. I looked at my watch, and it had been four hours. After stopping to eat, I continued to climb the mountain.

The trees are thinner, only three or two pines and cypresses remain, and scattered barren forests. I felt hungry for a while, so I looked around and wanted to find a suitable place to rest. On either side of me, on the left is an abyss reverberating with large white clouds; There seemed to be the sound of wind under the white clouds, perhaps the sound of water, kicking a stone down, and the valley rumbled like thunder. I finally found a slightly flat slope on the right. He sat down and ate dry food. As he ate, he suddenly found that the slope around him was not a weed or a shrub, but hemp. Will there be hemp in this place? I was amazed. Grab one and rub it, hey, it's good white hemp on the tunnel, the same as the pair of thread-eared straw shoes on my feet. Look at the soil under your feet, it is also turned over. And it's mixed with burnt grass ash. My interest came, and I climbed up the hemp ground, and then I saw that there was hardly a shrub around me that had not been cut by a knife and an axe. In a pile of fallen leaves, there is also a new hemp rope head thrown eighty percent. Who came here to gather firewood and grow crops? Look at the watch and know that I have been walking for six hours. The inhabitants of the water and drums will never travel more than 50 miles to grow hemp here, where the forests under the mountains are so rich, who will study these thorny branches and branches? Maybe there are people nearby, and the boss's words are not reliable, right?

I set off again. After walking up for two hours, the trees were bare, and no one was found, but the wind was blowing on the mountain, and there were snow particles in the wind, which was really cold through the bones and back, and after a while, there was no road around. In front of him was an ice ladder dozens of feet high, and there was a round hole every two or three feet on the top, and the round hole seemed to be able to fit half a foot at most. On both sides, there are slippery stone slabs, and the snow water has already made it slippery. Could it be that I'm on the wrong track?

Come back to me, I never saw a fork in the road, and the road was right. Try to climb up, but as soon as my foot kicked the ice cave, I slipped down and almost didn't fall into the mountain stream. Go back, unwillingly, if you don't go back, where will you go? I was in a dilemma, and another gust of wind came from behind, which made me unable to stand, so I had to pounce on the ice barrier. My hand unexpectedly touched a rope the thickness of a tea bowl buried under the snow, and this rope was hung from the top. I tried to hold on to the rope and it was very strong. Only then did I realize that this was the way to go. So I grabbed the rope and climbed up step by step with my foot through the hole. I was so tired that I gasped as if my lungs had exploded, so I had to lie down on the ice and rest for a while, and when I looked at my watch, I had been crawling for an hour. It seems like there's still half the way up, and then look back and down, oh my God! Can't go up to the sky, can't go down to the ground, people hang high in the air, if you stumble, you will really be crushed!

If I climbed up again, my arms and legs were all weak. The sky was about to darken, and the mountains and valleys were covered with ice and snow, and there was silence. In this vast mountain, I am the only one, and I really feel very lonely!

That's when I believed what my boss was referring to when he said, "You'll know when you walk." Walking at night is an activity in the human world. But what about here? Snow, stones, stones, snow, even the second creature could not be seen, and the whole universe was unusually silent, as if it was in a desolate world!

In the evening, I came to the straw shoe flat under the skyscraper. It's really a flat land the size of straw shoes, facing east and west, and there are three small bamboo sheds, and the mud on the bamboo huts has peeled off. The eaves were blackened. There were also three or two pairs of straw sandals hanging from a wooden wedge at the door. When I saw it, I was suddenly pleasantly surprised to think that it was the "one in the sky" that the owner of the Yamashita shop said was living here, right? I couldn't help but shout: "Boss, here comes the guest!" Pushing the door and walking in, who knew that the house was black and empty, quiet, just like the outside of the house, there was no anger at all. I turned on the flashlight, and the walls were empty, and I saw a few white words on the wall:

I would like to inform all friends: With the help of the Central Ethnic Visiting Group and the Qingfeng County Government, we have settled down the mountain. Twenty years, thanks to the patronage, I have to prolong my life. There is no way to repay, leaving 40 catties of firewood and 20 pairs of straw sandals, please take them casually. If you go to Qingfeng County, please be sure to come and give up a narrative, bamboo rope bridgehead, three new houses, and a red camellia tree at the door to remember.

Liu Yunhan

Looking at the date written below, I know that it has been almost three months since they left. I sat down weakly. This time, I really arrived in the desolate world, and the scene of the young couple hugging and freezing that the boss said seemed to appear in front of me...... At this moment, there was the sound of heavy objects crushing snow outside, and when I looked out through the doorway, I saw a wide and short thing, with heavy steps, walking towards the hut. Looking at the outline, eighty percent is a bear. I flashed to the door, hid behind it, and asked, "Who is it?" ”

With the sound of wood falling to the ground, the black shadow's body lost more than half of its weight. A stout figure emerged. He gasped and shouted:

"I'm the second baby under the mountain!"

Four

The second baby went to the snow line to get firewood and just came back. When he came to the top of the mountain, it was still ten o'clock in the morning, to see that the old man had moved down, and he was going to return to the water to play drums, and he thought that it would be better to get some firewood nearby to make a point, and he would simply go to Qingfeng County early tomorrow morning to see what was going on.

Now he staggered to carry the firewood, and said angrily: "Fortunately, I met me, there is no fire, and you will not be frozen into popsicle sticks this night." ”

We started a fire. In the firelight, I could see that the second baby was actually a beautiful young man. Dressed in a blue bamboo cloth cotton coat, with a white bandana, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and thick lips, he looks like a hero in a painting. Slowly, the frozen blue face turned red.

I asked, "Is it so difficult to get some firewood on this mountain?" ”

"This is not where people live! In addition to the convenience of drinking the wind and the peace of mind about eating snow, you haven't seen it all the way? There is not even a single grass in the surrounding area for dozens of miles! ”

"Then what does Liu Laohan do when he beats straw sandals?"

"Hemp. Didn't you see that hemp field when you came? ”

Unexpectedly, that hemp field was really opened by the old man of the straw shoe flat. I asked again:

"Where's the dressing utensils?"

"Salt guests come and go—you don't see, what they're wearing! The old aunt and Yun Niuniu are just a rotten linen cloth, and they don't leave the pot all year round, and the old man goes up the mountain and down the field, only wearing a bear skin to wipe Erwa! ”

I said, "In this way, as soon as you are liberated, you should expect them to come down." ”

"In the cooperative, I had already told them about it, allocated them a house, prepared enough food rations for two months, and asked them to come and make straw sandals, but they refused. That knew that the hexagram had changed again. Tomorrow I'm gone, and I'm going to have to drag him away!" ”

I laughed and said, "I should drag it away." The water drum boss said, you are his uncle! ”

He shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't mention it, don't mention it, I don't have any hope for this family affair...... Before my father died, he asked me to send clothes to Yun Niu, and after sending them back, the old man put a pair of straw sandals in my baggage. My father looked at it and said, 'Baby, your family affair is done.' This is an appointment between me and your uncle, and his Yunniu approves it, and when he sees the clothes, he will return my straw sandals, and if he doesn't approve, he will put a piece of salt. After I die, you will take his family to his hometown in western Sichuan. When my father died, I came to my uncle to tell him about it, and he said, 'Yunniu is yours, you can take her away.' We've been on the mountain for 20 years, and now we're old, what are we going to do when we're old? I went to find Yun Niu, and Yun Niu scolded me for having no conscience, she said: 'You want me to leave my parents down the mountain, it's in vain!' I want to marry you and come up the mountain! You see, I can't walk and go, and I am not willing to stay on this mountain for the rest of my life, so I have to settle down at the bottom of the mountain and wait for them to change their minds. That knows that now it is flying again. ”

As he spoke, there were several faint roars outside. I said, "Listen, it looks like someone is coming." ”

He listened with his eyes wide open, and said, "Don't think nonsense, where will there be voices on this mountain after dark." Let's bake some dry food and eat it and sleep in shifts. ”

I opened the bag of dry food, and Erwa took out a bunch of chili peppers and roasted them on fire. Before the dough was fully cooked, someone outside suddenly shouted, "Which one is here, and you can't hear it?" ”

My second baby and I were taken aback, and when we turned to look, we saw an old man, wearing a thick leather coat and a dogskin hat, with a red face full of light, holding a torch high, and rushing in. The second baby jumped up and pounced on it and shouted, "Uncle." ”

"Second baby, you came well, go and pick up your aunt, she slipped and twisted her waist, I was going to carry her, and I still have a load of things on my body. When you see a fire here, you know that someone is sharpening, but you don't know how to shout! ”

The second baby suddenly came to the spirit, put on a coat, and went out. I also went out with the factory. The old man stopped and said: "It's useless for you to go, this road is more difficult to walk than the north road, and you have to add someone to help you when you go!" ”

I said, "He can't do it alone." ”

"There are still people in the back, and the club has sent a team of people to see us off. It's just that most of the things they carry are too far behind. Come, help me get the burden in. ”

The old man's load of things is really not light, and when he moved in, he saw that there were pots and pans, kitchen knives, and two hens hanging outside. After reading this, I couldn't help but ask him in amazement, "What, you moved back again?" ”

"Moved back." He put on a bag of cigarettes, stood at the door, looked down the mountain, and said, "These days, salt guests come to me every day." As soon as the dragon gate formation was set up, they complained: 'There is no Dajian station on the top of the mountain, and this road cannot be walked.' Carrying a trip to the salt will take a two-day detour to the east. Now they are all in the transport company, and the company has mobilized people everywhere to come here to make a rest stop, but everyone is afraid that the weather on this mountain will be cold and sparse, and they will not be used to it. It's no wonder that the air on this mountain is so thin that it can't even boil water, and people who can't get used to it will get sick. My family Ah Xia said. At that time, there was no way to live under the mountain, and we fled to the mountain, and we have lived there for 20 years, and now our Communist Party needs someone to open a body and rest station, can we still wait and see? And it came back again. ”

I told him what was going on with the second baby. He laughed and said, "That's a stupid doll, and even a woman can't snatch it from her parents!" Ho ho, it doesn't matter, this time it's not as good as last time, the company has shipped grain, firewood, and even shop tables. What is lacking in the future, what will be delivered on time. What are he afraid of when he comes up the mountain! It doesn't matter if I'm not used to living in the mountains, as soon as the road is built, I have to go down. This is the time of coming. The county magistrate ordered...... Earlier, I was reluctant to go down the mountain because Yun Niu's mother was from Yi. To the south, she was afraid that the Yi people would come to fight her, and to the north, she was afraid that the Han people would make fun of her. Now Mao's ethnic policy is good, so you can go anywhere......"

After a while, lanterns and torches were lit outside, and people were shouting. Suddenly, the silent valley became lively and lively. I walked out of the house with the old man, and I saw a group of people coming from afar. At the head was an old man wearing a purple and blue pleated skirt and beeswax earrings, and on one side was a girl in Yi costumes, and on the other side was the second baby......

Five

Ten years have passed, and I have never walked that road again. When I arrived in Beijing last year, I was on a plane. When I saw a mountain in a sea of clouds that protruded like an island, I casually asked myself, "Which mountain is this?" ”

A soft reply came from behind: "Straw Shoe Lawn." ”

I hurriedly looked back and saw that it was a lesbian in her twenties. Wearing a moon-white shirt, two short braids, a round face, big eyes, and a twinkle of eyes, he was also looking at the lonely island-like mountain. I recognized it, she got on the plane from Xichang. There were many of them traveling with them, and most of them were of the same age. Be in good health, talk and laugh along the way. It looks like I'm going to Chongqing for a meeting.

She knows about the straw shoe lawn, and she also knows the family, so I'll call it. Sure enough, she was very familiar:

"As soon as the highway is opened, they will go back to Qingfeng County."

"What about Yun Niu?"

"Married." With that, she turned around and pressed her face against the window.

"Do you live in the water drums, or do you live in Qingfeng Chengguan?"

A young man next to him interjected with a smile and said, "No, you see, I live on the top of that mountain." ”

"What? Straw shoe lawn? It's not that the road is built......"

"I don't need a sharp shop, but the Academy of Sciences needs an alpine weather station. The young couple reported their courage and went back to the straw shoe lawn. Speaking of this, she pulled the female comrade who was rushing to the window opposite violently, and said with a smile: "You don't know each other?" This is the ...... of the head of the Straw Shoe Ping Weather Station to attend the meeting of activists for socialist construction."

I looked at her again in surprise, vaguely remembering Yun Niu's appearance. She had already wiped her tears with laughter, and said intermittently:

"I recognized you early, the night you and my man were on the straw shoe lawn......"

October 1962

[note 1] Guozhuang Wazi is a slave of the lowest class, a domestic slave.

[Note 2] Before the democratic reform, the Liangshan Yi area was a slave society, and the slave owner class was called Heiyi, and the slave class was called Baiyi, also known as Hei Gu, Bai Gu. The two classes absolutely do not intermarry.

[Note 3] A kind of bamboo mouth string, which is played on the mouth and uses the mouth as a resonator.

[Note 4] The Yi people called the top of their heads "Heavenly Bodhisattva" and considered it a sacred and inviolable place.

[note 5] A gathering to celebrate a good harvest, to buy and sell, and to mediate disputes.

[Note 6] The Yi do not burn pottery, and all utensils are made of wood.

[Note 7] Yi customs, the husband is an adult, and the daughter-in-law can live in her mother's house for a long time.

[Note 8] Just as black and white Yi did not intermarry, the Yi people were even more strictly forbidden to intermarry with Han Chinese, which was called "a yellow cow is a yellow cow, and a buffalo is a buffalo". Generally, all two people were executed, and some of the Yi family were killed.