Chapter 8 Qilidong

Entering the narrow mountain road, winding, on the hard stone walls on both sides, there are abrupt rocks sticking out from time to time. If you are not careful, you are afraid that you will hit your head.

Looking around the stone wall, there are still drops of water dripping in many places, and the most places converge into a small pool. Up and down the stone wall, in the dark place, there is also a lot of turquoise moss, making the air filled with a slightly wet and cold smell.

Gui Li and Xiao Bai turned three times and turned eight times. It was not easy to turn out of this mountain road for many years, and saw the sun again.

On this day, the sun is rising, and the hazy weather a few days ago looks quite sunny.

Just as they came out of the dark mountain road, in the sun, Gui Li and Xiao Bai couldn't help looking up their eyes and felt the light from the sky, as if they were shining on them with a beautiful ring halo.

After a while, when the eyes got used to it, the bustling sound in the distance gradually came.

The two looked forward and saw a cheerful look in front of them. Surrounded by mountains, there was a fertile, flat and open land in front of them.

Houses with a strong seedling flavor rise from one to the ground, either built on the mountain, or closely connected. There is also a clear stream, which originates from the deep mountains ahead and meanders through this paradise-like land. Many Miao people's houses are built on both sides of the stream.

On the surface of the water, from afar, Miao people built three bridges, which are actually different. One is a wooden bridge, the simplest. Two giant trees are tied together and fall across the two sides, even if it is a bridge.

As for the other two, they are both stone bridges, but they are also more flavorful. A large stone, rough and solid, flattened on a stream with not wide water surface, and then built up with a thick stone slab, is the bridge, which is a simple and practical way to build a bridge here in southern Xinjiang.

But the last stone bridge is made of small stones, and there is no pier. It is an arch bridge. Each stone is closely connected, crossing the sky and flying over the stream. It is really strange that the flavor of the bridge on the side of the middle land will appear here.

Gui Li looked at these in his eyes and moved his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He and Xiao Bai continued to walk forward, and the crowd became more and more lively. Most of the people around were Miao people's local language. Gui Li only felt chirping in his ears, and he couldn't understand a word for a long time.

Xiaobai walked beside him and looked around him. Many of the Miao people he met around him looked at him. Because he saw a new face, he looked at him a few more times, but there was no special hostility. After a few steps, she whispered to the ghost, "It seems that there has been a lot of peace here in southern Xinjiang over the years."

Gui Li was stunned and puzzled. He said, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Bai said, "When I came here, ordinary Miao people saw outsiders, all of whom were facing great enemies, and they were even more vigilant in their eyes. At that time, the five races were fierce and cruel, and the fights between the tribes rose from time to time. If outsiders dared to come to these seven miles, if they did not have the art of self-defense, they would probably be more or less auspicious. However, looking at today's situation, I'm afraid there have been fewer fights over the years.

Gui Li nodded slightly and looked around. At this moment, they were already walking in the middle of the Miao people. The road was on the side of the stream. On one side were the houses closely connected by many Miao people, on the other side was the clear river, and there were many green trees on the bank.

At a glance, Miao people's houses are mostly made of wood. The style is completely different from that of Middle-earth. They are square and unpretentious, and there are ferocious animal bones hanging on the main door of the corner and the edge wall. The more fierce the beasts are, the more common they are. Vulgarity, in order to show the bravery of the owner of the house.

There are Miao people selling at stalls on both sides of the road, but most of the things sold are beast fur and raw meat. After a few more steps, I saw one or two stalls selling small jewelry, jade and other toys.

Xiaobai smiled and said, "The fur here are all good goods, and the price is very cheap. If you want, it's very cost-effective to buy a few here."

The corners of his mouth moved, but he didn't say a word and walked straight forward. Slowly walk to the river bank and look down, you can see that the river is extremely clear. Standing on the river bank, you can also see the stones under the water of the stream, and there are countless big fish and small fish swimming in the water.

In the distance, there seemed to be birds passing by, fluttering their wings and falling on the surface of the water, looking around with their heads high, and then closing their wings pleasantly and swimming gently on the water.

Everything in heaven and earth is surprisingly harmonious in this place.

Xiao Bai slowly came over. I don't know when Xiao Hui, who ran to her shoulder, poked out his head curiously and looked down the stream.

"What should I do now?" The ghost said lightly.

Xiaobai pondered for a moment and said, "Anyway, it has been three hundred years. If the person in those years did not have such practice as us, most of them would have passed away. Let's find the place where the original person was first. "

Gui Li nodded silently and said, "Where is he?"

Xiaobai smiled, pointed forward with his hand, and said, "There."

Gui Li looked up and was suddenly stunned. He saw that in the depths of the Miao people's residence, a stone platform building built halfway up the mountain, far higher than the ordinary Miao people's houses.

Gui Li frowned and whispered, "The altar."

Xiaobai smiled and said, "That's good."

The ghost murmurs and does not speak, but his heart is slightly anxious. It is not for anything else, but the altar has a special meaning in the southern part of Xinjiang.

He has been to southern Xinjiang many times in previous years. Although he has not paid serious attention to the customs of southern Xinjiang because he was full of trouble and was single-minded in finding the mysterious black witch clan, he still knew some basic things.

In the border areas of southern Xinjiang, the five ethnic groups of Zhuang, Miao, Tu, Li and Gaoshan are divided into land, or because of different tribes, they also believe in different divine religions, but among each ethnic group, there are places dedicated places to sacrifice to the ancestors of gods, which is the altar.

The altar has a noble status among the tribes in southern Xinjiang. In the eyes of most of the tribal people, most of the time, the words of the wizards in the altar are actually no different from the words of the great and mysterious gods. In the past, when the five races fought most fiercely, every time there was a war, we had to first ask the wizard in the altar, explain the situation to the god, and get the god - that is, the permission of the great wizard himself, so that the tribal chief could launch a new war.

From this, we can see what kind of status the altar and the wizards in it are in southern Xinjiang!

And as far as he knows, these wizards have rarely met outsiders.

Gui Li was silent for a moment and turned his head to Xiao Bai and said, "That is the altar of Miao people. The person you mentioned, is it..."

Xiaobai smiled faintly and said, "Yes, three hundred years ago, what I saw here was the great wizard in the Miao clan who applied the soul-returning method and was rescued by a Miao man who was taken away by the mountain spirit demon with one soul and three souls."

Miaoren's great wizard...

The corners of the ghost's mouth moved again. If the wizard in the altar has a high status among the southern Xinjiang tribes, then as a wizard with the strongest magic power and the highest status, the great wizard who personally conveys the will of the gods every time is simply a god in the eyes of ordinary people.

If anyone dares to offend the great wizard, Gui Li has no doubt at all. All the Miao people on the land in front of him, and even all the Miao people in the whole southern Xinjiang, will rush over and fight with him.

Xiaobai looked at Gui Li with great interest and smiled, "Well, what should we do now?"

Gui Li glanced at her and saw the early morning sun falling on her face, as if refracted out, with a faint warmth.

Without saying a word, he turned around and walked slowly to the altar halfway up the mountain.

Xiaobai smiled and followed.

This place is known as Qiliteng, which is naturally quite large in scope, and it is claimed to be the largest place where Miao people live on the border of southern Xinjiang. As they go deeper, more and more Miao people are seen.

From the relatively large road they walked, there are continuous branch paths extending to the side, like a big tree with branches and leaves.

The two of them looked from afar, and the road under their feet was directly extended in the direction of the altar in the distance, so it also saved the trouble of interrogation.

However, as they got deeper and deeper, more and more Miao people noticed their behavior, and the whispers around them came one after another. After about half a cup of tea, they walked to the foot of the high mountain of the altar.

Then, they stopped. It was not they who hesitated, but the soldiers stationed at the foot of the mountain stopped them.

Gui Li felt a little irritable, but the current situation was not unexpected. Originally!! As the supreme sacred altar of the Miao people, it would be strange if there was no strict guard.

There are a lot of Miao soldiers guarding the foot of the mountain. At a glance, there are at least a dozen strong men standing on the road to the mountainside at a distance or near.

At this time, the two men standing in front of them stopped were the two Miao men. They were wearing ordinary Miao people's clothes. The difference was that they had a wooden armor made of a tough wooden fence on their chest, holding a long-handled pointed gun in their hands. It seems that this is the difference between Miao soldiers and ordinary Miao people.

The two Miao people looked up and down at Gui Li and Xiaobai, and then mostly fell on Xiaobai's beautiful face for a moment, and then shouted, "Shuh, quack, quack, quack..."

Gui Li turned his head and looked at Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't ask me. I've been locked up for so long. How can I remember these local words?"

Gui Li silently turned his head, pondered for a moment, and said, "We have something important to meet your great wizard." Because of his request, it is rare for him to speak at this moment, but he is a little polite.

However, it is obvious that the place where the Miao people live is far from the owner who opened an inn in Tianshuizhai. He can be proficient in Middle-earth language. When they hear Gui Li's words, the two Miao people frowned tightly and looked at each other, but they even picked up the long-handled With a serious face, he shouted loudly and asked, "Hu Lu Lu, Lu Lu Hu Lu Li Li..."

The ghost was fierce and dumb. For a moment, he didn't know what to do. To be honest, he ran east and west for Baguio for ten years, looking for the whereabouts of the black witches. Now he finally has some clues, but he is blocked by these Miao warriors. He is really irritable. He really wants He was cured of Baguio.

It's just that after all, he is no longer a teenager who didn't know the world at the beginning. He knows that he must not be impulsive at this moment, otherwise once he is dead, he is afraid it will be counterproductive. But he hesitated for a moment. Because he couldn't speak, he pointed to the altar sitting halfway up the mountain with his hand and said in a kind voice, "We are going to your altar to see the great wizard."

I don't know if the Miao people don't understand what he said, but he pointed his finger at the movement of the altar in the middle of the mountain, which immediately made all the Miao people around him, including the Miao soldiers standing further away and some Miao people who were watching the bustle behind them, angry. They immediately shouted and scolded one by one Come up and surround them.

Gui Li was stunned for a moment, and Xiao Bai whispered beside him, "Oh, you may have made their taboo. "

Gui Liqi said, "What did I do?"

Xiaobai looked at the angry crowd around him and whispered, "The altar is a sacred and inviolable place in the eyes of the Miao people. It can't be easily mentioned in words at ordinary times. It is even more disrespectful to point your finger at the altar, which is the biggest insulting action among the Miao people."

Gui Li stared at her and said angrily, "You didn't tell me such an important thing earlier?"

Xiao Bai smiled softly, and seemed to show his tenderness. He said softly, "You should also think about it. I've been locked up for 300 years. How can I remember so much..."

The ghost is fierce and dumb, and I really feel that my head is extremely big for a moment.

After the Miao people around saw that they were besieged, they were not afraid. Instead, they talked in a low voice there. The man was still a little anxious, but the woman simply didn't pay attention to the Miao people around her at all. She smiled skillfully and looked forward to the waves.

There are many Miao women around. Looking at Xiaobai's beautiful appearance in the audience, they were secretly envious for a moment. However, when they saw more Miao men looking at Xiao Bai's eyes shining, the whole audience immediately shrugged, and for a moment, the sound came one after another. There were a pair of dog men and women insulting the It should be the momentum of being executed with thousands of knives and death.

In the middle, several young men couldn't help arguing, saying that it was the man who insulted the altar. There was no big mistake for this woman. It's better to kill the man, leave the woman, and be my wife, etc...

Before they finished speaking, these men were immediately submerged in the Miao girl group. They were beaten by their mother, sister, sister, aunt, third aunt, sixth aunt, or even Miao girl they didn't know, or they were beaten by hand, or kicked, or scratched their hair, or scratched their ears, or beat their chests. In short After that, there were several thumping sounds, and the men were thrown down the stream with blue faces and splashing up.

Miao girl is strong, which can be seen.

Those Miao soldiers didn't seem to expect that these Miao women would be so angry that they were even more angry than the soldiers who were qualified to guard the altar with the most loyal talents of the gods. They hated these outsiders who insulted the altar so much that they were beaten with a random stick if there was any slight pleading for mercy.

The Miao soldier led by

seemed to be the leader of more than a dozen soldiers. He glanced at the young men who were still crying in the river, coughed, and looked at Gui Li and Xiaobai. His face was like frost, and he didn't even look at Xiao Bai. He stared at Gui Li, as if he was afraid that the man would He was afraid that his eyes would be smooth and open, so he couldn't help but say that he couldn't understand clearly, and said angrily, "Haha, Lu Lu Lu Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li

Gui Li is also very anxious here. Although I don't know why a large number of Miao women suddenly rushed together in the crowd, arrested a few young Miao people, beat them up and threw them into the river, but most of the Miao people have some strange customs, which is not surprising.

However, he can't communicate with these Miao people at present. Just now, he inadvertently violated Miao people's taboo and angered Miao people. Seeing that more and more Miao people gathered around him, although he and Xiaobai are both practitioners, they are never afraid that these Miao people are many and strong, but they really want this Miao family now.

Over the past ten years, he has been suffering from hope to disappointment to almost despair. Now that such a good hope has suddenly rekindled, he will not let it go easily in any case. But now I can't make sense at this moment, and I'm afraid that it's not easy to communicate. In case I inexplicably offend any taboo again and again, it's too wronged.

He stood there. He couldn't break through, and he was even more reluctant to retreat. He was in a dilemma. It was really embarrassing.

When the Miao people around saw that the two people did not repent after making mistakes, they still stood still in place and said nothing. The man still looked a little anxious, but the woman smiled more and more brilliantly. Under the crowd, she seemed to be even happier, and her smile became more and more charming. In the meantime, he actually stared at several Miao men Zi smiled and immediately made the men dizzy..

This scene fell into the eyes of the Miao women around, and it suddenly exploded. It was really tolerable. It was unbearable. The sound of drumming and noise was getting louder and louder, and the two people were almost drowned with saliva.

Seeing that the crowd was going to be out of control, many Miao women were about to rush forward to teach the ** little goblin a good lesson. When they took a bad breath for themselves in the name of the gods on the altar, they shouted loudly and came from behind the soldiers guarding the mountain road.

The voice was so strong that it suppressed the noise of many people, and the voice was full of majesty. The Miao people around him seemed to know this voice. They suddenly calmed down and looked up to the mountain. Obviously, this person was very prestigious among the Miao people.