When the car arrived in Sanmiao County, it was already the evening of the next day.
We obtained the equipment we needed from the backyard of a blacksmith shop.
When I looked at the large and small bags piled up like a hill, I was dumbfounded.
He hurriedly asked the people here: "Brother, are these prepared for us?"
The guy was a local Miao, and I couldn't quite understand what he was saying.
Finally, Li Dabao pulled me with some disgust and said, "Oh, Brother Jiuri, these look like a lot, but it's not the same thing when you actually go into the mountain."
At first, I didn't expect the meaning of Li Dabao's words, but when we really entered the endless Shiwan Mountain.
Only then did I discover an unchanging truth, that is, it is really good to bring more equipment, although it will be very tiring in the early stage.
After the person named Zhu sent us here, he made some simple handovers with the people here and left.
As for when we enter the mountain and when we set off, it is entirely up to us.
At the same time, he also handed me a letter.
It was said that this letter was left to me by Uncle Yan and would be handed over to me when we arrived in Sanmiao County.
After I took the letterhead, I opened it on the spot, because at this time Li Dabao had already started to distribute equipment and pack it.
Judging from his appearance, he was already impatient and wanted to fight in the mountains.
He originally muttered when he was on the road.
"By the way, Brother Jiuri, there is something we need to say first."
"You look for your clues. As long as you have something useful, I won't snatch it from you. But the rest of the underworld weapons, water heads and other things will all be returned to Li Dabao."
When I asked the cold girl what to do.
Li Dabao showed that rather unbeatable expression again.
"Whatever the eldest sister wants, I will give it to her directly. You, the eldest young master of the Chen family, do not need to care about our affairs!"
The content of the letter is not long. It contains a paragraph and an address.
The location is in an ancient Miao village deep in the southwest of the Miao village, which is called Sanmiao village.
Uncle Yan told me in the letter that if you want to find the location of ancient Raojiang, you must first visit Guishou.
He also said that Guishou had been unable to contact him since he came back last time, and that he had suffered irreversible damage.
Whether our actions will be effective this time depends on the mood of the old man with ghost hands.
However, Uncle Yan also said in the letter that if the old man Guishou doesn't agree to help, he will let me take something from his hand.
And that kind of thing is not only important to me, but even more important to the old man Guishou.
There was nothing else, and he didn't say anything about where Uncle Yan went.
At the end of the letter, Uncle Yan asked me to cooperate well with Li Dabao.
After putting down the letter in my hand, I looked at Leng Yue and Li Dabao and wanted to ask them if they were going there now?
Li Dabao said directly: "Hey, what are you waiting for? If you don't go now, when will you go...?"
Leng Yue picked up the backpack on the ground and walked out without saying a word.
We didn't leave here on foot. When we left the blacksmith shop, the guy who connected us had already prepared a Wuling second chartered car for us.
He also said: "The place you want to go will have a difficult journey. I originally prepared a pickup truck for you, but in some places only this kind of vehicle can barely pass."
With that said, he handed us the car keys.
I looked at the dilapidated van in front of me, one of the windows was broken, and it felt a bit unreliable.
But at this time, Li Dabao had already sat in the driving position, then opened the window and called me.
"Hey, Chen Jiuri, what are you doing? Don't be in a hurry. Let's go...?"
As he spoke, he pressed the Wuling Bread's steering wheel and said: "The car is a bit broken, but it can still drive, and the gasoline is full. Come on, hurry up..."
When I arrived here, I had a feeling that I was not used to, but at Li Dabao's urging, I opened the door and sat in this car that smelled of equipment.
Leng Yue leaned on the chair in the back seat and closed her eyes to relax. The two waning moon scimitars were already worn on her body.
The difference from before was that this time the two knives were inserted into the blade.
Sitting in the co-pilot's seat was the young man who contacted us. After a brief introduction, we got to know each other.
I learned that this young man’s surname was Zhao and his ancestral home was in Shaanxi, but he had lived here since he was a child.
This time he can be regarded as half of our guide. Although he is not very senior, he is very talkative and has a good understanding of many local folk customs.
Because I had something on my mind, I didn’t participate much in the discussions and chats between them.
On the contrary, it was Li Dabao and Brother Zhao, who had a very happy conversation.
Because everyone was young, this topic came up around women.
Li Dabao asked Brother Zhao: "Brother, are all the girls here pretty cool? Are all Miao people like this?"
Brother Zhao chuckled; "That's not entirely true. There are not only Miao people but also Bai people here. It is a multi-ethnic county. Although it also belongs to Yunnan, many people have been Sinicized. It is still far away from the real Miao village. Some distance.”
"Is Sanmiao Village where we are going now very far?" I asked involuntarily, thinking about Uncle Yan.
The little brother thought for a while and said: "If we calculate it as a straight-line distance, it is only more than a hundred kilometers. But now that we are carrying these equipment, we can't get on the highway, and we need to walk a lot of mountain roads and detours to get to that place. It's a long way to finally reach Sanmiao Village, but I heard from my father that there weren't many people in Sanmiao Village long ago, and the only people who still live there are some old people who are reluctant to leave their original place."
"As for the young people after 1998, most of them left there..."
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According to my brother, the Sanmiao Village was affected by the great flood in 1998, which caused huge landslides and mudslides. Many villages built on the mountain, as well as tribes and other places were submerged by the floods.
Because of the geographical structure, the government asked the people living there to move south. Therefore, there are not many people living in places really close to Shiwanda Mountain.
This can be seen from the comparison of the population of this county when we arrived.
Brother Zhao talked a lot along the way, and even introduced us to the origin of Sanmiao Village in detail.
Sanmiao refers to an ancient ethnic group from the Yellow Emperor to Yao, Shun, and Yu eras in Chinese legends. They are also called Sanmiao people, with Miao, Miao clan, and Miao people worshiping snake totems.
According to historical documents, Sanmiao is mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, between ancient Dongting Lake and Fanyang Lake.
Sanmiao has a very ancient history.
As early as the time of the Yellow Emperor, the Sanmiao tribe had participated in the Jiuli tribe's alliance.
Some documents say that Sanmiao is the "Queen of Jiuli."
During the reign of Yao, Sanmiao was in rebellion. Yao's soldiers launched a conquest and fought in Danshui, defeating Sanmiao. Sanmiao may have joined the Yao tribe alliance at this time.
Later, the Sanmiao rebelled many times, so Yao exiled the Sanmiao people to Chongshan. After Shun came to the throne, the Sanmiao were dissatisfied again, so Shun reorganized his army and surrendered to the Sanmiao without a war.
Legend has it that Sanmiao is a very advanced national system. Among Sanmiao, there have been "gentlemen" and "villains" a long time ago. '.
Gradually, there began to be divided into classes.
The document "Mozi, Universal Love" contains "Yu's Oath", which is the words of Yu's oath when he conquered Sanmiao. Yu fought a war with the dissatisfied Sanmiao that lasted for more than 70 days. This battle spread We arrived at the edge of Shiwanda Mountain in the south.
At this point, Sanmiao has completely declined...! There are also few records in later generations.
Nowadays, some scholars believe that Sanmiao originated in the north and have nothing to do with the southwest ethnic minorities of later generations.
But in fact, the current Miao people and some ethnic minorities are descendants of Sanmiao people who fled to the southwest.
Their bloodline cannot reach the purity level of the original Sanmiao people.
The place we went to this time was the Sanmiao Village, which has long since disappeared in legend, and is also the hometown of the old man Guishou.
What just makes me confused is that before, Uncle Yan said that Ghost Shou Lao Qi was not from Raojiang?
Could it be said that Sanmiao Village is originally within the scope of Raojiang?
The car continued to drive, but the people on the car were already a little tired.
Especially Li Dabao, after driving for four hours, he let Brother Zhao take over, sat alone in the passenger seat and began to fall asleep.
I originally wanted to sleep, but when I leaned on the recliner, I couldn't fall asleep. It was already dark.
Apart from the clanging sound of the Wuling van, the only thing left on the entire road was Li Dabao's thunderous snoring!
Leng Yue beside her seemed not to have said anything since she got in the car.
Sometimes he would open his eyes and look out the window. Every time he looked at me, he would quickly look elsewhere.
Sitting in such a bumpy car, I naturally felt bored, so I leaned on my chair and started thinking wildly.
It was in such an environment that I fell asleep in a daze.
During this period, I didn’t know whether I fell asleep or not. Brother Zhao suddenly braked and threw me off the seat!
The car broke down...!
