There were still a few pieces of frozen beef in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator, Zhang Lisheng took them out, threw them into the coarse porcelain clay pot without thawing them, added cold water, seasonings, and medicinal herbs, and simmered them on the stove over high heat.

Wait until the beef is cooked in seven or eight layers, then change the heat to low, and add some secret brown herb juice in time to stew the meat until crispy, and a pot of nourishing medicinal food is ready.

This jar of medicinal food is different from ordinary medicinal food, it does not smell strong and tangy, and there are not many special things in the first taste, but eating a few more bites makes people feel a wonderful sense of satisfaction, and the body becomes hot and comfortable.

After eating up the beef stew with soup and water, Zhang Lichang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his mouth, washed his face with well water, walked into the side house of the ancient house, lay on his rough and sturdy wooden bed, and soon fell asleep.

This sleep was more than ten hours, until the next morning, he woke up late, and before he got out of bed, he heard a shout from outside the door, "Mountain insects, mountain insects, I am your Uncle Hunting, quickly open the door".

Zhang Lisheng hurriedly put on his pants, put on a coat, and shouted in his mouth: "Uncle Hunt, you wait, I'll open the door", strode to the bulky and old wooden door, opened the latch, and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was Tao Lielin, who saw Zhang Lisheng in disheveled clothes, and said in surprise: "What are you doing?"

I'm going to welcome your dad home today, why hasn't your baby gotten up yet?"

According to the custom of the Miao Wei people, those who die in other places must be taken back to their hometown by their families for burial after 24 hours, that is, two days and two nights.

Zhang Lisheng then remembered that today was the day when he was going to the county seat to pick up his father 'home', and hurriedly ran back to the side room of the ancient mansion in a panic, "Uncle Hunt, I've been scribbling in the past two days, I, I'm going to get dressed." ”

"It's no wonder that your baby is nonsense, alas, even after such a big event in the adult's family, the head is not clear.

It's not that Uncle is urging you, in addition to picking up your father back today, I also have to meet with the driver, traffic police, and insurance company who caused the accident, and I don't have enough time to talk about it in a hurry. Tao Lielin said as he planned to step into the courtyard of the ancient house, but as soon as he lifted his legs, he felt a chill in his heart for some reason, shivered, thought about it, swallowed and spit, and put his legs down again.

Since the village was still a Miao village hundreds of years ago, few people dared to enter the gate of the Zhang family in all dynasties.

Since ancient times, the folk customs in western Sichuan are barbaric, and there are many gods and strange legends, when the indigenous mountain people want to welcome back their families who have died, according to the customs, men and women must wear tube pants and flower shirts, wrap their heads with red cloth, and bring gold and silver ornaments on their necks and wrists to avoid evil.

Zhang Lisheng has been wearing cheap children's clothes that his father bought from the county department store since he was a child, and after he went to junior high school and had a school uniform, he never changed his school uniform, and he never wore the traditional clothes of the Miao Wei people.

Therefore, this time to welcome back Daddy's bones, he didn't have clothes that conformed to the customs, so he could only go to Daddy's room to rummage through them and try his luck.

Although the Zhang family is a father and son, Zhang Daowu has always been harsh to Zhang Lisheng, and Zhang Lisheng has never entered his bedroom in his memory.

Pushing open the door, knowing that Daddy Lu Dao was dead, Zhang Lisheng still couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

The light in the room is dark, and the most conspicuous thing is a huge wooden bed, the material is similar to the wooden bed in Zhang Lisheng's bedroom, but the volume is twice as large.

Zhang Lisheng was stunned, climbed onto the wooden bed, and forcefully opened the heavy wooden box at the head of the bed on one side, and saw that what was placed inside was not clothes, but lifelike animal statues the size of dozens of palms.

He was feeling disappointed, when suddenly his eyes went dark, and a wild land of grass and trees suddenly appeared in his mind.

Even the grass looked three or four meters tall in that land, and a group of giant warriors with naked upper bodies, thatched aprons on their lower bodies to cover their shameful places, and stone swords and axes as blades, were fighting bloodily.

In the jungle far away from the battlefield, there are countless poisonous insects and beasts with huge bodies and hideous fangs, and fierce beasts are staring at the flesh and blood of the giant warriors on both sides of the battle in the dark.

There were also four giant humanoid corpses shrouded in black mist among the insects and beasts, carrying a huge stone bed, on which a swarthy, thin man with a body the size of an ordinary person sat cross-legged with a ridiculous appearance, and his face seemed to have a faint smile.

The illusion was fleeting, and before Zhang Lisheng could see clearly the faces of those giants, giant beasts, and giant corpses, especially the man on the stone bed, he felt that it was dark again in front of him, and everything was back to normal.

He shook his head vigorously, and thoughtfully picked up a statue from the wooden box.

It was like a venomous snake with a black pointed head, its body sinking and circling as if it were playing in water, and its tail split into three prongs.

Looking at the statue, Zhang Lisheng immediately remembered a record in the ancient book "Water Jing Note (Ruoshui)": "In ancient times, there was a hooked snake, ten zhang long, with a forked tail, good at water, hunting people and beasts with a tail hook in the water, swallowing and eating it."

One zhang is about three meters, that is, three hundred centimeters, and a ten-zhang python is thirty meters long, which is almost as tall as a twelve-story building when it stands upright.

According to the point of view of modern biology, even in the Cretaceous period, when the air was extremely oxygen-rich and large animals dominated the earth, it was impossible for such a large reptile to appear.

But for Zhang Lisheng, who has become a 'witch', everything is not so simple!

But now is obviously not the time to imagine the fake, he hurriedly looked at the other statues in the wooden box, and found that they also belong to the ancient Chinese books, and the mountain spider, Qin Yuan, Xuan bee, centipede and other strange insects that cannot exist in reality, and then closed the wooden box.

After that, Zhang Lisheng climbed to the other end of the wooden bed and opened another wooden box, in which many clothes were neatly stacked.

Hurriedly looking through it, he also found that at the bottom of the wooden box, there was really a new set of traditional Miao Wei costumes, and a few clumsy red gold collars and bracelets, suitable for his own use.

Feeling that the time had been delayed for too long, Zhang Lisheng couldn't be surprised, hurriedly took off his clothes, and hurriedly changed into the seedling clothes in the wooden box.

Although he was fat, everything still looked neat after pulling up his trouser legs and tying his waist tightly, and then he put on the collar and bracelet, and he became a thin boy of the Miao Wei clan in an instant.

After getting dressed neatly, Zhang Lisheng strode out of the ancient mansion barefoot.

Tao Lielin saw Zhang Lisheng dressed in a Miao suit outside the door, nodded and said, "I want it, I want it." Then he picked him up and ran towards the entrance of the village.

At this time, hundreds of villagers had already gathered at the entrance of the village, and in addition to leaving one person to watch the house, almost all the adult villagers gathered in each family in Yuwo Village.

'When a family is in trouble, a hundred families help each other' is an ancient custom handed down by Miao Wei people in a difficult mountain life, and it is not a joke to really practice.

"The mountain insects are coming, you sit in the front row of the car, and the others go up according to the east of the village, the west of the village, the south of the village, and the north of the village. Buckets, don't litter. Seeing Tao Lielin pulling Zhang Lisheng on the stone road from a distance, an old Miao Min with a wrinkled face and a strong spirit shouted loudly without a trace of a smile on his face.

The old man who spoke was Tian Jiushi, who had been the village chief and branch secretary of Yuwo Village for 57 years, and legend has it that he once participated in the uprising against the Japanese people in western Sichuan when the Red Chinese Kingdom was not yet established, and he was extremely prestigious in the entire Damu Town.

"Yes, yes..."The mountain people heard Tian Jiushi's shouting, and climbed into the truck in an orderly manner, even the most disobedient young man was very obedient.

As for Zhang Lisheng, Tian Jiushi behaved very differently, watching Tao Lielin pull the young man to his side, he shook his head and sighed and said gently: "The mountain worm is here, Daowu Adi's body is so tough, who knows that Lu Dao is walking in front of my old man."

You are the descendant of the Zhang family in our Ouwo Village, and you will welcome your father today. ”

"Yes, Uncle Ninety. Zhang Lisheng lowered his head and replied sullenly.

Zhang Lisheng grew up from childhood to adulthood, and the same age was called by name, and the older ones were called uncles and aunts, and he was called 'uncle' to Tian Jiu0 who was in his eighties and Tao Lielin, who was in his forties.

Tian Jiu didn't think about Zhang Lisheng's title, sighed again, turned his head to look at Tao Lielin, and said loudly, "Ah Hunting cub, your ninety grandfather is old, and he can't go to the county seat, so I will entrust this matter to you today, and you have to do a good job, like a show." ”

Hearing the old village chief call himself 'A Hunting Cub' in front of the whole village, and many tourists in a row, Tao Lielin's face almost turned into a red cloth, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only nod his head and said in a low voice: "Ninety master, I know, I know." ”

"What?"

"Ninety masters, I know, I know. Tao Lielin raised his voice and shouted embarrassedly.

"Don't delay, get in the car. Tian Jiushi waved his hand with satisfaction.

In this way, the old branch secretary of Yuwo Village gave an order, and more than a dozen trucks loaded with villagers from the mountain village drove towards the county seat of Qixian County.

As soon as the convoy passed the station of Damu Town, it attracted the attention of people with good intentions, and halfway through, two public security law enforcement vehicles sprayed with the word "police" stopped the truck team in Yuwo Village.

The six policemen, fat and thin, tall and short, all smiling and civilizing the law enforced, got out of the police car.