Chapter 24 Shifang Yiwu

Xiaoqiong took off the willow hat that Erhei made for herself from her head and inserted some small branches and leaves growing around her. At the same time, she also asked Erhei to take the willow hat and help him insert some small branches. Then, Xiaoqiong bent over again and didn't want the trees around her to make a little noise, but Erhei was high. Big, bent his body was still still very high, so he had to let him climb down as much as possible, carefully moved a distance to the stone bridge, and hid under a short and dense small leaf tree to observe carefully. When the mantle and the old wolf saw the owner like this, they did not dare to make any noise.

Xiaoqiong's body hid in the bushes. First, she stretched out her head and looked at the stone bridge in the village. She found that the oval piers and bridges were made of basalt stone formed by the unique red soil of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau after thousands of years of precipitation and erosion. On the right side of the bridge are two very old and large squares. It looks a little old. Clear color, it looks gray or not gray, red or not red.

However, from the terrain where Xiaoqiong and others live, it can be seen that the square is about five meters high and about two meters wide. There are also several paintings on the square, which are strangely colored. However, there is a rectangular groove on the square. The inside and outer edges of the groove are full of black birds, and there are also small black birds that have not opened their eyes, which is dark. Among them is a huge black bird. At this time, it is lying in a groove. It is asleep under a tall hemlock. Xiaoqiong looks at its body curling. Even if it is asleep, it is as big as a five-year-old child, and its mouth is sharp and sharp.

Xiaoqiong saw that the big black bird in the workshop seemed to be very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere. She suddenly remembered that it was the black bird that the goddess usually rode, as if she had seen the goddess--. She secretly guessed that if she was bitten by a big black bird, she would be hurt if she was not dead. She was so scared that she shrank back, and also sounded the branches and leaves on the soil of a dwarf tree. It was very close to some blackbirds and flew up in shock, causing many blackbirds to look this way. The huge blackbird suddenly opened its eyes and stared at this way with a round of green beads.

Xiaoqiong was scared and her feet softened. She almost fell to the ground and was hugged tightly by Erhei lying on the ground. Xiaoqiong did not dare to let Erhei act as the boss in front of these black birds. She blocked Erhei's mouth with her hand and didn't want to make a sound. She wanted to find something and jumped on the old wolf in a very timely and dexterity. The low leaves poked their heads out and looked around in a panic. When the black birds saw that it was a fox, they calmed down.

Xiaoqiong climbed under the low leaves, and there was no movement. Then she stroked the head like a reward. Fortunately, these black birds did not find their whereabouts and Erhei. They slowly poked their heads out from under the dwarf tree and looked at the bridge. The sun was strong, and there was still no one. She couldn't help but Her eyes fell on the carved patterns on the stone square. On the first pattern, there was a girl kneeling on the ground, looking up at the sky, as if praying for the gods.

From the clothes, yesterday Qiong can see that this is an ethnic minority woman. The right skirt of the coat is tight, and the cuffs, neckline and skirt are embroidered with colorful lace. The lower body is dressed in a red and white pleated skirt, which is single braided. The woman wears a bright chicken crown hat decorated with red satin and beads. The hat forms a chicken bandit, and the chicken bandit has Some large and small silver bubbles are embedded on it, and the picture is carved vividly, just like a beautiful Yi girl. However, Xiaoqiong looks a little familiar, as if she has seen it somewhere.

Xiaoqiong suddenly remembered that the woman behind the mirror given to her by the goddess was very similar. When she realized that this was the young woman, she felt that it was a little impossible. Looking at those stone workshops, there was a thick sense of heavyness. The stones on both sides had been polished smooth. It It is after a long period of friction and evolution that has absorbed the aura of everyone that the surface can become such a color, and the four corners on the top of the workshop are still a little weathered. From the perspective of the degree of weathering, Xiaoqiong judged that it was hit by wind and rain, not just like the goddess carved when she was young.

However, behind this Yi girl is a terrible scene. The earth is dry and the trees are dry. Only some dead tree stumps are still inserted on the ground. There is a pile of burning flames on one stump, which looks much smaller than the picture of the Yi girl. The earth cracks deep and opens from the mouth. A few fierce ghost faces poked out in the child. These ghost faces are monster-like, ferocious, very ugly and fierce. They are like evil spirits who have just escaped from hell with a ferocious smile and giving disaster to the world, which makes people can't help but worry about this girl.

There is a big sun on the head of the Yi girl, which is very disproportionate with the picture. Xiaoqiong can't help but think that this is the residence of a Yunnan ethnic minority - the Yi nationality. It is a nation that worships fire and the sun. Now the walls of many Yi people's houses are painted with the sign of the sun as a mascot-- ----.

But behind the Yi young woman in this picture is a dry land. There are some motionless people lying on the ground. They look dying. There are not only living people, but also strange and strange. Some faces are as thin as a skull, some have swollen faces, some with dry stomachs, and use a blade of grass. The rope is tied, as if it has some kind of plague or disease. It looks painful, but it is still a dying struggle, which makes people have an indescribable solemnity, and the heart can't help following the ups and downs of the carved pattern.

Xiaoqiong turned her eyes to the second pattern. There was also a Yi woman in the picture. Judging from her figure and appearance, it could be faintly seen that she was the same woman, wearing a headpan with gold, silver and coral decorations. However, her clothes also changed, and her lower body turned into a black mop skirt with a red and white pleated skirt. More embroidery-----.

Various pattern patterns are embroidered with red, gold, purple and other color silk threads on the chest, shoulders, cuffs or the whole dress of her clothes. The collar is also inlaid with silver bubbles, and the single braids are also combed into double braids. She wears a handkerchief embroidered with colorful flowers, and the old thread of the ears turns into silvery earrings. The pleated skirt is long and does not exposed. Toes, act majestically, with two human-like eyes on his back.

There was a group of black birds hovering on the Yi woman's head, and even two stopped on her shoulders. The woman's expression was similar to the woman in the first picture. She looked at the group of black birds with a peaceful expression, but the woman was cutting a piece of meat from her arm to feed it to the bird leaning on her shoulder.

Xiaoqiong looked at this picture. The muscles in her hand couldn't help shrinking. She felt that her arm was also uncomfortable as if she had been cut off a piece of meat, and behind the Yi women was still a dry earth, and the evil spirits climbed out of the deep ground and did not dare to approach the Yi woman.

Xiaoqiong was shocked and guessed that the Yi woman must be a wizard, and the relationship between the goddess and the Yi woman thought about it and thought that she was most likely to be the descendant of the Yi wizard. Gradually, Xiaoqiong's eyes became blurred, and she didn't know. What kind of witchcraft is this Yi woman using to make her body painless, and she doesn't know if her current mother-in-law will use such witchcraft?

Thinking of some strange phenomena that the goddess had used for herself, Xiaoqiong couldn't help wiping the sweat on her forehead. The goddess was really capable. Her ancestors used such witchcraft very early, and they could peacefully prevent the pain generated by the skin from entering the nerves of the brain.

Xiaoqiong looked like a god wandering around the world. She didn't know whether her mind was attracted by strange and strange ancient stories. There was a small beauty and mysterious pleasure in ancient Yi women wearing national costumes in her mind. Erhei helped her and said, "Qiang, Joan - you--how are you? ? ".

Xiaoqiong came to her senses, stretched out her tongue to Erhei, and then turned her eyes to the last carved picture, on which many Yi people gathered together. The picture restored a vitality, and the trees sprouted. There was no dry and cracked earth behind the Yi women, but a lush-- --.

The people on the picture looked happy. The Yi woman looked at the scene in front of her with a peaceful expression, as if she loved the fairyland-like paradise where she could grow very much. The Yi people behind her looked at her attentively and worshipfully, as if they were looking at the god in her heart.

Seeing these paintings, Xiaoqiong guessed that in this secluded village that is far away from modern civilization, these black birds and goddesses should be respected and worshipped by the villagers. Otherwise, it is impossible to set up a workshop here. But how can she cross the bridge? Xiaoqiong did not dare to walk over suddenly. She wanted to wait and see how others crossed the bridge. She could You can't learn from experience.

The four lay on the ground and waited for a while. There was no movement. Quietly, the air was hot. Xiaoqiong couldn't help stretching her head and looking at the stone bridge. Only then did she see a middle-aged man dressed in Yi people, carrying a basket on his back and passing the stone bridge at the other end of Yiren Village. Xiaoqiong judged when she saw his clothes. They may be villagers from Yi people's village, and there is still a knot on his head.

It is said that the Yi man's hero knot cannot be touched casually. He stopped in front of the stone square when he passed through the stone bridge, reached the stone square, bowed respectfully to the stone square, threw a piece of meat from the basket, bowed again, and walked over carefully.

Xiaoqiong was surprised. Sure enough, the villagers in the Yiren village respected these black birds very much, just like the devoutness of the Han people's respect for the Bodhisattva. She secretly thought about whether she had learned from him and threw some food for it when they passed the stone bridge, but when they went out in the morning, they didn't bring anything fresh. The meat only brought some dumplings.

Xiaoqiong didn't dare to be careless. She was afraid that she would throw dumplings to them. What if they didn't accept it?