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Yunnan, Cangshan in western Yunnan.

Ghost Valley, Medicine Village.

The mansion of the owner of the village, Bai Chongshan.

The five-storey main building and the three four-story wings on the left and right sides enclose a spacious courtyard, like a courtyard house in the capital.

Up and down inside and outside the wing room, on the carved beams and paintings of the mortise and tenon structure, there are all kinds of birds and beasts painted.

In the central pool of the courtyard, there is a snake-shaped totem carved out of a whole large bluestone.

There is a small pavilion in the middle of the totem, which is a bit like a Buddhist shrine of the Han people.

On the small pavilion is a large white clay pot with specimens of various snakes and scorpions.

On the second floor of the wing house facing the main building in the morning sun, only Bai Chongshan and his daughter Bai Ruxue stood on the railing in the long guardrailed corridor, staring at the serpentine totem in the courtyard.

"I don't know where you Amor are now, how are you doing?" Bai Chongshan asked as if he was asking. Father and daughter hadn't been alone like this for a long time.

"I've said it many times, I don't have Amo!Why mention her again?" Bai Ruxue said with some resistance.

"You resent her and hated her, which means that you still have her in your heart. Child, don't blame her, when you grow up and become sensible, you will try to understand her and forgive her. ”

Bai Chongshan was originally a descendant of a large family of the Liangshan Yi people Zimo (originally known as Zimin, also known as Zi, meaning the person in power).

His ancestors had been awarded the official positions of "Tusi" and "Xuanfu Division" by the Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Innuohe (also known as Nuo, with the meaning of black, known as Heiyi in Chinese, is a lower rank among the nobles, and the time of differentiation is later than Zimo) conspired against the usurpation and eliminated dissidents.

Even if he was fleeing and evading his own clan, he had to hide incognito and hide deeply. Therefore, the ancestors and entourage of Bai Chongshan can only silently worship the tablet of the ancestor Apu Dumu in the ancestral hall, or worship Entieguz (that is, the god of the heavenly and earthly realms) in the festival, as much as possible not to show the mountain dew, and not to publicize their Yi identity. Being in the Han region, in order to survive, they have to deal with the Han people often, so they follow the local customs, and after several generations, they not only learn to speak Chinese, know Chinese characters, and be familiar with the customs of the Han people, but also have a surname in the >.

But they never dare to forget that they are the root and origin of the Yi people, so each of their family members has both Han and Yi surnames. For example, Bai Chongshan, also known as Wumeng Ashuo; His daughter was as white as snow, and her name was Umon Dolma.