"It's still cold and shivering in the morning, why is it so hot that people are sweating all over after just a while?" Han Linyuan unbuttoned the collar of the coat on his chest, pestled a curved wooden stick, and turned around to look at Li Bing behind him, who was also in the same outfit.

Yinglan'er's skirt was folded in half to her waist, and the skirt had been raised to near the knee, but she still rubbed a lot of yellow mud. She had thick linen leggings tied to her calves, and even a piece of bamboo rattan tied to her shoes to prevent slipping.

It just rained a few days ago, and the mountains are all rotten and muddy, unless it is a good work, otherwise the more than ten miles of mountain roads down, it is not so easy to deal with. It is said that it is a mountain road, there are weeds and yellow mud everywhere, and if you are not careful, you have to fall, where is there really a road?

The day before, the three of them went to a small village near Aokiqiang and inquired around before they learned the general direction. I bought a robe and thatched shoe mats, and started my journey early this morning, which will be close to noon.

"I don't understand, since people say that the Zhuangzi called 'Qingmu Qiang' is already deserted, why do we still want to go?" Yinglan'er just fell down, covered in mud, most of the original play heart was lost, and she was listless when she walked, she took off her coat and held it in her arms, it was already sweaty.

"It's all here, go and have a look, in case there are still people who haven't left, you can ask. Han Linyuan walked in front, although he said lightly, he was also a little worried in his heart, this clue was provided by Li Xuan, there should be no mistake, why did the people here say that Aoki Qiang's people left twenty years ago?

Is this Li Xuan's news reliable? If he returns in vain this time, in the next month and a half, will it be difficult to take the next step and hand over Sun Wuyi's "scattered attack method" to Li Bing? Han Linyuan was so weak that he accidentally fell down, which caused Ying Lan'er to laugh.

Li Bing helped him up, and said: "The people in the village just now said that during the Anshi Rebellion, the local garrison rebelled and became bandits, looting everywhere, and many villages were unbearable, so they moved south, and this Qingmuqiang was also one of them. She paused and said: "I originally heard that the Qiang people have all entered Shu, I'm afraid that the Qingmu Qiang branch has also entered Shu to find other clansmen." ”

As he was saying this, he suddenly saw Yinglan'er pointing in front of him and shouted excitedly: "Look, is that the watchtower of Qingmu Qiang?"

The direction she pointed to was a square tower, slightly wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, and the whole body was made of knuckle-thick stone chips, between which was white plaster, square, towering straight up, about five stories high, and at the top was a lookout.

"It should be the guard tower of Qiang Village, the direction is really right!" Han Linyuan said, and said: "You see, the sentry tower is farther behind, and the big tree is the green wood in 'Qingmu Qiang'." ”

Ying Lan'er looked at it and smiled slightly: "There is no green wood, but there is one dead wood." Han Daguan, are we going to Aokiqiang or Deadwood?"

Han Linyuan was too lazy to argue with her: "Such a big tree is really rare to see." I heard that there is also a thousand-year-old giant tree in the Medicine King Palace, I wonder if there is one big?"

The dead tree is too far away to be seen, but it must be more than ten zhang high, and it is really a behemoth. The whole tree was completely dead, there was not a single leaf, but a few eagles could be seen perched on it, and some scattered red cloth bands hung from the brown branches.

"The ginkgo tree in the Medicine King Palace, I have seen it with Lan'er. It's big and big, I'm afraid it's not half as big as this one. Li Bing looked at the distance and rested, and then continued to walk forward with a wooden stick.

"Ginkgo biloba grows slowly, and it's normal for it to be as slow as other trees. I don't know exactly what kind of tree it is. Han Linyuan followed behind Li Bing and said: "Legend has it that this green tree is a green sheep in the lower realm of the sky, who soaked and brought the seeds of the Heavenly Palace Divine Tree into the mortal world, so that it grew into such a big tree. ”

Ying Lan'er snorted coldly: "Vulgar! A good legend, it doesn't mean anything to be told by you!"

The three of them chatted casually, and since they were almost there, the speed of walking was faster again. The dead grass on the road was mixed with the new grass, and it was difficult to see the ground. Han Linyuan was afraid of snakes, so he kept beating them everywhere with wooden sticks, and he was really scared away a few of them. In such a desolate place, if there are really people, Han Linyuan doesn't believe it.

Li Xuan, is this guy really mistaken?

After a while, the three of them finally came to the watchtower. This watchtower is more spectacular than seen from a distance, and the bottom exterior wall is pitch black, as if it has been burned by smoke and fire. Looking inside, all the wooden stairs were long gone, and Li Bing touched the wall, a thick layer of black ash.

"It seems that there is a fire here?" he said, and nodded again: "I don't know if they set a fire before they left, and burned everything that was changed." ”

"Or Shilou explained, if they are all made of wood like the houses in the Central Plains, after a fire, there will be nothing. It has been abandoned for twenty years, and these stone houses are still in good condition. ”

What Han Linyuan said was not only this watchtower, but also a large stone house behind it.

On one side of the sunny hillside, neat upper, middle and lower a total of six rows of stone houses, more than 70 households, similar in size, are black stone flakes mixed with white plaster, the yard is boxy, unconventional and neat. Most of the exterior walls of these houses were charred black, some half collapsed, others all collapsed into a mess of stone slabs.

"This village should have been pretty nice back then. Li Bing walked into a few houses at random, they were all empty, and some traces of charred ash could be seen, and after more than 20 years, the traces of the fire seemed to be about to be completely buried.

"Hey, is there anyone!" Ying Lan'er shouted twice casually, and even she felt that her efforts were in vain.

Walking along the hillside, the stone houses are empty, like graves, and at the end, they are actually a little crazy.

The three of them were in a hurry, and they originally wanted to go back, but they still walked under the dead tree along the way.

The tree was bigger than I had just thought, and there were some strange characters carved on the trunk, which were neatly written, about Qiang. It is wrapped with strips of cloth in new and old colors, making the tree look less lonely.

Li Bing and Han Linyuan studied the text and wanted to roughly guess the meaning, but they heard Ying Lan'er shout again: "Come and see! ”

She kicked it with her foot and turned over the huge bone on the ground: "This? It looks like a sheep's skull, why is it so big?"

When Li Bing saw it for the first time, he was also taken aback, it looked like it was clearly a sheep's skull, but this size was thicker than an adult's waist, could it have become a sperm?

Han Linyuan stretched out his hand to remove the mud on it: "This is not a sheep skull, it is a white stone carving, carved into the shape of a sheep's skull." It's the totem of the Qiang people!" He rummaged around again, and there were a lot of broken stone chips next to him, which were the materials used by the Qiang people to build stone houses.

"It seems that this place was once a place for totem worship, and it should be a place of sacrifice. ”

Li Bing looked down: "That's not right, since it's a totem, how can you stay here? Don't you take it with the team?" After speaking, he also bowed down and touched the sheep skull carving: "It's really not the texture of bones, like marble, but not exactly." It's so realistic!"

As soon as he looked up, he suddenly felt a chill around him, and a layer of white fog appeared.

"It was still the scorching sun just now, why did it get cold all of a sudden. He was careless, and turned around to talk to Yinglan'er and Han Linyuan, but there was no one to see.

The white fog became thicker and thicker, and in the blink of an eye, nothing could be seen.

"Linyuan?Lan'er?" Li Bing exclaimed in surprise: "Where are you people?"

Looking around, his vision was obscured, he became more and more anxious, shouting Lin Yuan's name, and then turned around, looking from a distance, a solemn Sifang Treasure Hall suddenly appeared in front of him.

And next to him was the huge green tree, flourishing and thriving. A gust of wind blew away the fog, and the huge leaves on the trees fluttered like wind chimes, and the sunlight sprinkled on the ground through the layers of leaves, a huge mottled net.

In the middle of the eaves of the treasure hall in front of you, there is a huge statue of a sheep's head, and the red, white and blue cloth is hung horizontally on the beam, which is considered a decoration.

Li Bing was puzzled, and was looking at the sheep skull statue in a daze, when he suddenly heard a noisy shout from the house: "Hurry up! Hurry up! Bury everything in, let's avoid the disaster first, and come back to get it later." ”

Li Bing followed the sound into the treasure hall, and what caught his eye was two painted yellow clay statues, both of which were sheep-headed people, the one on the left held a trident, and the one on the right held a saber at his waist with both hands.

In front of the two statues, seven or eight people knelt down, all in blue or white coarse cloth clothes, and simply embroidered with small pink flowers. After making a strange salute, they all got up and removed the statue on the left, revealing a hole in the mouth of the well.

Li Bing stood at the door, originally waiting for the people inside to ask him, but those people seemed to completely ignore his existence. He called out twice: "Hey, hey!!" But the people in the treasure hall were still busy with their own things, gradually moving the things on the ground into the hole.

Li Bing hurriedly stepped forward and patted one of them on the shoulder, but his own hand passed through his body.

"Is this a dream? or a hallucination?"

I watched seven or eight people put the things on the ground into the hole one by one, there were wooden boxes and baggage, and I didn't know what was inside.

Looking through this hole, although the hole is small, the space inside is quite large, like a secret room.

"Brother Shan, why are you in such a hurry. Why did Da Xu suddenly ask us to bury our things and go out to avoid the war?Where is there any war in this peaceful and prosperous world?" The only girl among the eight said as she handed the burden to the man next to him.

Brother Shan took the things handed by the girl and handed them to the people in the secret room: "You don't care about this, 'Da Xu' can divinate the future, he can't be wrong." For thousands of years, the Qiang people have not been extinguished, all because of the generation of 'Da Xu' who has led us. After he finished speaking, he pointed to the things on the side: "Don't stop, hand me those too." Be quick!"

"Is this thing safe here?" the girl asked again

"With the statues of the gods of 'Xuqiang' and 'Bran' to watch, the gods will bless us. These are all books of our Aoki Qiang, recorded in Qiang, and others can't understand it, don't worry. ”

"Woo~!Woooooo

The eight people in the treasure hall were still busy, and suddenly there were two horns outside, loud but low.

"The watchtower has warned!" Brother Shan's movements became faster: "Why is it so early!" He shouted into the cave: "You two hurry up, there are only a few left, put it and come out, cover the hole!"

The eight men worked together to lift the clay statue of the mountain god, put his throne on the entrance of the cave, and set the tribute table neatly.

The sound of the bull's horn outside became more urgent.

The eight people in the treasure hall hurriedly rushed out, and Li Bing followed, and after a while, they walked to the hillside.

There are a total of 70 stone houses in the upper, middle and lower six rows, black stone and white ash, neatly and neatly, and the hillside of each layer is full of neatly maintained flowers, thousands of purples and thousands of reds, everything is very beautiful.

Men and women, young and old, have all come out of the stone house, those who get into the carriage get into the carriage, those who drive the cattle and sheep drive the cattle and sheep, the crowd gradually becomes noisy, and people keep shouting: "I don't want anything, it is important to save my life!"

The carriages and ox carts finally set off, but before they left the village, the people on the watchtower had already shouted: "The Tang soldiers have surrounded them, and they can't get out of the main gate, so turn around and take the path!"

The carriage that was at the front pulled the reins sharply and quickly turned around. The mountain brother also rushed into the crowd and snatched a whip from one person: "Daddy! Can these sheep be worth more than life?

His father also listened to him, and the two turned around and rushed to the trail behind the mountain, but before they got out of the village, a feather arrow suddenly flew out of the mountain road, and it was in the middle of the mountain's brother's eyebrows.

The girl beside him was so frightened that she screamed loudly.

This made the entire Qiang village completely chaotic.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding!" Li Bing understood the situation, and there was already a sound of slashing on the mountain trail in the distance behind him. Someone shouted for help: "Oh no, Tang Bing has already surrounded him from the trail!"

Before Li Bing walked back to the watchtower, the black and oppressive Tang army had already surrounded the entire Aoki Qiang.

A captain in a dark cyan military uniform, Captain Bapin Xuanjie walked out of the Tang Army, stood at the front, and shouted at the restless crowd: "Don't make noise!

After the Qiang crowd was quiet, he glanced at a person behind him and respectfully retreated: "My lord, please!"

It was a man dressed in black, thin and tall.

But no matter how close Li Bing was, he couldn't see the man's face clearly, and he could only hear his voice being cold and hairy: "Excuse me, that is the Qiang 'Da Xu'!"

As soon as the words fell, among the crowd in the village opposite, a person also walked out, dressed in white embroidery, wearing a white cloth wrapped around his head, and wearing a short knife at his waist.

He looked at the man in black and smiled slightly: "In the end, you still found me!"

Li Bingyuan thought that this 'Da Xu' was talking to the man in black, but if he looked at his eyes carefully, he seemed to be looking at himself.

He moved two steps, and found that the big eyes were indeed moving with him.

The two looked at each other, and then heard Da Xu say: "I'm afraid I can't wait for you for twenty years." Son of prophecy, I don't know, are you well?"

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Thank you to the book friends for supporting me when I broke off. Especially Venerable Luan "Ai Xiaoying", thank you for your continued encouragement.