In the distance, I saw five figures, four men and one woman. One of the women stood out, with a white trench coat, a beige round-brimmed hat, and half of her brown curly hair exposed, "This woman has a good figure!" ”

Yu Fatzi smiled: "Your kid has really been dry for a long time, I can tell you not to beat her, this woman is not small, you can't afford to provoke her!" As he spoke, he greeted him with a smile, "Miss Huai, I'll introduce you to a new friend." ”

"Presumably you are Mr. Li Rui who Brother Yu has been talking about, right? My name is Huai Rujin, and it's a pleasure to meet you. She took the initiative to extend her hand, "I hope to have a good cooperation!" ”

I kept looking into her eyes, coldly, full of politeness. He just raised his hand and touched her fingertips, and said with a smile: "The fat man is my buddy, and it's just a coincidence that I'm here, if everyone is fateful, then it should be regarded as making friends!" Miss Huai, what do you think? ”

"It seems that Mr. Li is very good at joking." Huai Rujin smiled and said, "Let's sit down and talk, right?" ”

"Okay." I nodded, "But my car is out of gas, I don't know if you have any surplus, can you give me a little even?" ”

Huai Rujin glanced at my car, "It's okay, there are still seats in our car, let's take our car." ”

Yu Fatzi patted me on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't see me like this, to be honest, you are really not as good as me in driving, this road into the mountain is even more precipitous, I'm really afraid that you can't do it!" ”

"Yes, Brother Yu's driving skills are still very good, I can guarantee that."

I observed the four people around Huai Rujin for a long time, and during the conversation with him, they didn't say a word.

"These people are her bodyguards?" I asked softly.

"No, the black thin one is a bodyguard, and the other three are all masters she called, and they are fighting upside down!" Yu Fatzi whispered, "Okay, don't ask, don't you know for a while?" ”

"Don't you think it's strange that a young rich second generation took a group of tomb robbers to Sichuan to fight upside down?"

"Is it strange? The Huai family is a family of tomb robbers, let me tell you, what a rare opportunity for her to make a move this time, do you know, you, you, you, don't ask me here, you can ask her yourself for a while! ”

Yunhe Gorge, high mountains and deep valleys, the Yi people here have lived here for generations, isolated from the world, like a paradise. Although the road has been built outside the stockade, due to the rugged terrain, there is still only one dirt road that is not paved with asphalt to the outside world. The relatively closed environment has also created a unique folk custom here.

The houses in the village are basically brick and wood structures, most of them are more than half a century old, and the outer walls are covered with moss and weeds. Different from some other villages in Bashu, the village here is built on the hillside, high in the north and low in the south, looking at the mountain from the canyon, although the rows of houses are scattered and built, it is like a castle, which is majestic and magnificent, and it is quite magnificent.

There is also a water village under the hillside, where the villagers and the villagers on the mountain are the same family, and the villagers of the water village serve as a defense for the mountain, and take fishing as their daily business. The open land of a river valley not far from the water village is a treasure land with abundant water and grass and fertile soil.

In the evening, a bonfire was lit in the stockade. The women of the stockade began to get busy and welcome the guests from afar. This Yi village still retains more traditional clan customs, and the research team of the township in the early days of liberation once came here, but because the emperor was far away, the policy of changing customs was only implemented on paper. The villagers still follow the tradition of the female dignity of generations, which can also be seen in the layout of their houses.

Yu Fatzi became more and more energetic at night, and excitedly sang and danced with the girls in the village.

"Li Rui, did you see it, I said the girl Shui Ling here, right?"

I nodded, the light of the torches flickered, reflecting on people's faces, but it still couldn't hide the handsome face and graceful posture of the Yi girl. "Where's the man here?" I looked around for a long time, but there were few men, except for the prime of life who passed tables and pans, and some children.

"You don't know the customs here." Fat Yu patted me on the shoulder with a smile, "Let's be honest, this is simply a man's paradise, no, to be precise, it's our paradise." ”

I was even more puzzled, "What do you mean?" ”

"Does matriarchal society understand? You should know this better than I do, so I won't talk to you about it. Yu Fatzi smiled and poured a bowl of wine into my mouth, "Right here, this is the center of this village, a square, and the people in this village arrange this sacrifice, celebration, prayer, and any gatherings here." But! But what? ”

"Don't sell it!"

Yu Fatzi was just about to speak, but Huai Rujin had already taken the first step to speak, "But there is a rule in this village, except for the middle-aged and underage children who are responsible for helping, all men are not allowed to come here, even the oldest man in the village." ”

Huai Rujin raised his glass, touched it on my glass, and drank it all.

"I didn't expect Miss Huai to be a bold person, isn't she afraid of getting drunk when she drinks this Yi spirit?" I laughed and said, "I thought I drank a lot of alcohol, and now I'm even more ashamed." ”

Huai Rujin twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, "Wine is for fun, not for anesthetizing oneself, all the women in this village drink, and they are never drunk." ”

"Yes, as the saying goes, if you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk, this good scenery, good scenery, and beautiful women accompany you, you should really have a good drink." As I spoke, I drank it all down.

"There is another characteristic of the layout of the houses here, although the age of construction is different, the families are different, but in general they all follow a rule: that is, around the central square to radiate outward, the closer to the center, the more noble the status, the older the age, and their houses are built all year round, and the older the owners will build the house higher to show status."

Yu Fatzi smiled: "I have to add, don't you think that this old woman will live to be seventy or eighty years old, and this house must not be built dozens of meters high?" I heard the girl here say, the woman here is in charge, the woman is not the man, the original owner of the house passed on the family to his daughter after the age of 30, and went to live in the water village by himself. The houses here do not have roofs, and in order to make it easier to build high, they all lay thatch on them, and they also build an extra layer of bricks every year, so they are not much taller for more than ten years. Most of the dilapidated houses like this are no more than a hundred years old, and the tallest house here is the one in the northwest corner, which is only ten or twenty meters. ”

"And where do the men live?"

Huai Rujin pursed his lips and glanced at me, "The marriage method here is still the ancient way of marriage, polyandry, men have no formal wives, and if the mistress of each room gives birth to a child, they don't know who their father is." She smiled bitterly, "Aren't you stupid?" But sometimes I find that this is also beautiful, without the constraints of marriage, I feel that there are a lot less troubles in the world. ”

I nodded, feeling that she had something to say, most of which was hiding something. But I didn't ask, the woman in front of me made me confused. "Then how do they tell the difference between blood relations, and what if they marry close relatives in the future?"

"Why bother to distinguish between these, the women here can give birth after the age of sixteen, and almost every night men climb through the outer wall into the windows of the highest floors, and they treat childbirth as a ritual, and they abandon inferior babies born of close relatives with great cruelty and piety. So, in the end, the men and women here are still at a normal and harmonious level. ”

I only felt my scalp tingle when I heard it, and a chill ran in the back of my head, "What are they for, such a desperate birth, and such a cruel end to a life that is born by mistake because of no rational thinking?" ”

Huai Rujin's eyes were a little confused, she didn't know what to say, glared at me, and then spit out a sentence, "Perhaps, because of the strict hierarchy, men and women can't experience love, and what is left of men and women without love, you won't know this!" Her words were cold, like sharp ice cubes shining with cold light.

I was silent, pondering what she meant, and thinking, "Maybe she has her story, otherwise how could she be so emotional." I nodded in satisfaction with my reasoning, but it looked like I was approving with Huai Rujin's words.

Huai Rujin walked away with a heart, and when she was leaving, she looked at me with a sad look in her eyes, like a crack like a glass bead shattering.

"Hey, Miss Huai is leaving?" Yu Fatzi called, but her distant back never looked back, "Hey, really, I just had a good chat, and she left when she was up." It's okay to go, how about Xiao Li? ”

"How's that?" I was asked inexplicably, "Also, don't call me Xiao Li Xiao Li, it makes me have a good relationship with you." ”

"Didn't you say you've been wilting from the drought lately? Why don't we climb the stairs tonight? ”

"Who the wilted!" I pushed Yu Fatzi hard, "Are you ashamed to climb someone's building in the middle of the night?" ”

"This is the custom here, I have made an appointment with my sister, and I have to go to the appointment tonight!"

"I'm going to you just a step ahead of me, can you do it so quickly? Also, this is a Yi village, and foreigners can't intermarry, right? ”

"Hey, hey, I won't talk to you, the last sentence that Miss Huai said was very good, without love, what do you say women are left? It doesn't matter if you are a foreigner or a foreigner, is this unclear, love, on the verge of breaking out. Don't worry, the girls here are very open. Yu Fatzi smiled and stuffed something into my pocket, "I know you have a discipline, it's okay, take it with you just in case." ”

I touched it suspiciously, "Ya, why are you ready to go out?" ”

Yu Fatzi said with a smile, "It was originally prepared for Miss Huai, but now I wonder if she loves birds or not for me, I guess I don't need it!" ”

"Hey, you kid...... I really don't know what to say about you! ”

I was hesitating, and Yu Fatzi pondered, "You won't be cowardly, will you?" But you yourself said that you are looking forward to Ganlin, this is a timely rain, and now you are escaping, you are not my brother! ”

I snorted, "You're just cowardly, I'm worried about you, climb that building in a while, good guy is tall, go up to your size?" ”

"You are underestimating me, my Yu Fat Man has also practiced, and we won the Beijing Children's Gymnastics Championship when we were eight years old!"