Chapter 1 Gu Village (1) Want a boyfriend?
The sky was gray, and light gray cumulonimbus clouds covered the mountainous areas, giving the entire world a dark gray filter.
The grass and trees in the mountains are lush green in the sun, but in such dark, damp and sultry weather, the grass and trees seem to have turned gray-green. The towering mountains give people a feeling not of vitality, but of a depressing, silent and cold feeling.
The world was very quiet. Apart from the sound of the shabby tourist bus bumping along the mountain road, not even a single bird song could be heard.
“Chirp…” “Squeak…” “Quack…”
"What's that noise? It's been yelling all the way, it's so annoying." A girl who seemed to be carsick was awakened by the continuous yelling. She looked to be in her early twenties, petite, with an apple face, and wore a sun hat with small pink flowers.
You can't blame her for complaining out loud. Being on a tourist bus is already uncomfortable, and the noise was really loud, making people feel inexplicably upset.
"It's a bug." Sitting next to her was a young boy. The two of them were in an intimate posture and looked like a couple going on a graduation trip. The young boy was tall and thin, wearing black-framed glasses and had an honest face.
The tour guide wearing a little red hat sitting behind the driver said: "Yes, there are many insects in our mountains. When it rains, all the insects come out." Such music came from the grass and woods. It was a sonata played in unison by the insects.
This bus has 32 seats in total and can accommodate 30 tourists, who are individual travelers from all over the country. They have all signed up for a seven-day and seven-night tour in Y Province.
Y Province is where ethnic minorities gather. Although it covers a large area, it has few plains and many mountainous areas, and the terrain is complex. During the trip, tourists feel like they are hanging around on the bus almost all day long.
"The scenery here is so beautiful, I'm going to paint a picture when I stop!"
"Did you see the bug? I just saw a big beetle lying on the tree. It felt as big as our face!"
In the two rows at the back of the bus, there was a small and energetic team of eight people.
These young people are full of youth and their faces are full of collagen. They are all students from an art studio in City A. They have just finished the college entrance examination, so a group of acquaintances signed up for a tour group. There were four boys and four girls in total, and they decided to go on a trip and do outdoor sketching.
Tan Yue, who is sitting in the second to last row by the window on the right, carrying a drawing board, is one of the eight-member team. However, since he only joined the studio this year, he is not very familiar with the other people in the studio. They just came here to travel together. After all, there are discounts for group prices, and the more people there are, the cheaper it is.
Tan Yue grew up in an ordinary family. Studying art is very expensive. He has been sensible since he was young and has a sense of saving. This time he went on a trip with the New Year's money he had saved for many years.
“Gah…”
The bus suddenly made a strange noise, and the already bumpy bus suddenly braked without any warning, causing many tourists to hit their heads on the bus.
Some passengers did not wear seat belts and slid out of their seats with a "bang", leaving a big red bump.
The wife of the slam-brake victim immediately complained in a shrill voice: "How could you drive so fast without even telling me?!"
"There's a landslide ahead and the road is blocked." The driver's voice was cold and made people feel inexplicably depressed.
The tour guide was a young girl who spoke in a much gentler tone: "It's going to rain heavily. The mountain road is very dangerous at night and when it rains. The village of the mountain people is ahead. We mountain people are very hospitable. Please go to the village to rest and recuperate."
The girl behind Tan Yue said in surprise, "Really? Why didn't I see it before? There is such a beautiful village here! I even saw the red house."
I don't know when a light white mist rose in the mountains, maybe because a heavy rain was brewing, the window glass was also foggy. Tan Yue wiped the window with the handkerchief he carried with him. His eyesight was very good. Looking through the clear glass window, he saw the white house among the green mountains.
Those houses are all white, and look like two or three-story Hui-style buildings, with white walls, green tiles, and roofs covered with tubular tiles. On the eaves there are some stone-carved toads squatting, and some insects with lifelike postures.
There are also many colorful paintings made of pebbles on the wall, including spiders, centipedes, geckos...it seems that all five poisonous animals are present.
Among the many white houses, there is a red house with red walls and tiles, which looks very conspicuous. It may be a clan temple. Tan Yue is not sure. After all, this is his first time traveling. What he knows about Y Province is just the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, and he doesn't know much about the local customs and culture.
"If we stay in the village, will we be able to stay there?" "Yes, is there a hotel here? Do they provide food and hot water?" "The road ahead is blocked, can't we turn back?"
There were many tourists in the bus, and they were talking to each other and making many comments, but neither the driver nor the tour guide responded. They had cold expressions, and the complaining tourists also quieted down.
On the contrary, the student group that Tan Yue belonged to was very excited. After all, those white houses looked very beautiful, and young people were always willing to try new things and loved everything new.
The bus quickly changed direction and drove towards the village where mountain people lived. The bus finally stopped after a bumpy ride for half an hour.
Tan Yue saw the wooden archway standing in front of the village - Black Dragon Village. Behind the archway was a stone wall made of bluestone, four meters high. The wall extended to both sides. Judging from the range, it should have covered all the white houses and red houses. Behind the archway was a three-meter-high arched door.
At the door, there was an old man wearing a straw raincoat and looking very skinny, smoking a water pipe and guarding the gate of the village.
The more he thought about it, the more he thought about it. This seemed to be a very exclusive village. The driver was still in the original position, and the tour guide got off the car first: "Wait a minute, I need to discuss something with the people in the village."
It was very dark at this time, and as soon as she went down, heavy rain fell down.
From Tan Yue's position, she could see the rear door of the bus. Through the curtain woven by the heavy rain, she could see the tour guide's conspicuous hat and red vest. As she walked farther and farther away, her figure was slightly distorted in the rain.
He took out a 2B pencil from the big pocket of his windbreaker and subconsciously drew on the sketchbook he carried with him. As an art student, he always habitually used a brush to record all his inspirations.
Five minutes later, the tour guide came back. Her face was covered with rain and her hair was sticking to her forehead. Her face had turned pale, probably because of the rain.
Tan Yue noticed that she was soaked all over, and there was a pool of rain water in the bus. The rain water was a bit dirty, and there were some small black spots floating in it.
These little black dots seemed to be alive. He rubbed his eyes. It should be the soil flowing caused by dripping water. Those were just ordinary little black dots.
Tan Yue, who was only focused on watching the tour guide, did not notice that the faces of some tourists on the bus had also turned pale, with a slight bluish tint. Some female tourists who had put on makeup still had red lips, and their shadows reflected in the windows looked like paper figures.
The female tour guide used a loudspeaker to emphasize to the tourists: "I have asked the villagers, and they agreed that accommodation and meals here are free. Everyone must be polite and not picky. The villagers hate people who don't follow the rules and they also hate others wasting food."
Accommodation and food are free, so those tourists who originally had a lot of complaints shut up. After all, it was raining heavily, the roads were slippery and dangerous, and the stuffy bus was definitely not as comfortable as the village.
The tourists entered the village under the guidance of the tour guide. Tan Yue looked at the white houses with curiosity. As he got closer, many details became clearer. The patterns on the walls were indeed the classic five poisonous animals: snake, toad, gecko, spider and centipede.
In addition to these, there are many other insect patterns, such as dragonflies, butterflies, moths, longhorn beetles and the like. He is not an insect lover, so he can only barely recognize a few common ones.
The houses in the village are beautifully built. There are many old men and old ladies wearing distinctive ethnic costumes working outside. Most of the women do weaving work. Many families raise silkworms, and it seems that everything from raising silkworms to spinning silk to weaving is done manually.
The men came back from the fields carrying hoes, and some came back carrying spring water. The conditions in the village were very poor, without even running water. The villagers drank spring water brought down from the mountains, and some drank water from deep wells dug by humans.
This is a village without any modern technology. Everything is original. Even the village chief's house has no TV, only a dim electric light.
Although the exterior walls of the houses were white as snow, the interiors of most houses looked gloomy and dim because they were only lit by flickering candles.
Tan Yue followed the main group to the villager's house to take shelter from the rain. Their small team of eight was assigned to the village of a grandmother who lived alone. The grandmother's house was clean and tidy, and she also raised three chickens, no roosters, all hens.
There are many large jars piled up in the yard. They are all those large, rustic ceramic jars with stones pressed on top. They might be pickled cabbages.
After the novelty wore off, Tan Yue's classmates began to complain: "Why is there no electricity? My power bank is running low." "The signal in the mountains is too bad. I don't even have internet!"
Tan Yue took out his old mobile phone. Like everyone else, his phone had no signal and he couldn't send calls or text messages, let alone communicate online.
Fortunately, the students were good at finding joy in hardship: "I brought poker." "Me too!" "Let's play poker!"
The seven people divided into groups of two or three to start playing poker. Some people also called out to Tan Yue, but he was not interested: "I'm going to go out for a while, you guys play by yourselves."
He has an outstanding appearance, with thick and distinct eyelashes, and light brown eyes that are like thousand-year-old amber, clear and clean, like a deer in the mountains, with a top-notch forest-style appearance.
In the words of my friends who have grown up, the facial features that do not look gaudy are put together to create the most perfect work of art. The forest-style ceiling is beautiful and durable. It is pleasing to the eye at first glance, and the more you look at it, the more beautiful it becomes. It is like the fresh wind in the forest, natural and comfortable, and perfectly natural.
This good-looking appearance without any aggression made Tan Yue very popular when he was in school. Not only cats and dogs liked him, but also grandpas and grandmas on the street and babbling children liked him.
Tan Yue greeted the grandma who temporarily took them in: "Grandma, I'll go out and take a look."
The old lady didn't speak Mandarin, and Tan Yue didn't understand the local dialect, so he spoke while gesticulating.
During the conversation, Granny Li stared at Tan Yue's face, feeling the young man's abundant energy, and her mouth curled up in an exaggerated arc: "Go ahead."
The meat of the elderly is tough, the meat of children is too little, and the young people with tender skin and flesh have abundant energy and blood, and are the most delicious.
Moreover, this young man is very clean, has such a handsome face, and has not lost his vitality. If he is offered as a sacrifice to the Lord Dragon God, He will definitely like him.
Looking at Tan Yue's back as he left with an umbrella, Grandma Li danced with joy behind him.
Her slightly cloudy eyes stared straight at the young men playing cards in the room, and a hint of disgust appeared on her wrinkled face: they all had yellow and green hair, exaggerated looks, and impetuous auras.
They are still students, but some of them look weak and deficient in blood and kidney energy, and it is obvious that they are not virgins. They are all defective products, but they are young and numerous.
Granny Li licked her lips subconsciously. Her tongue was very long, as bright red as a cockscomb, and the tip was long and forked.
A boy who was smoking in the room happened to see this scene, and the cigarette in his hand fell and burned the instep of his foot.
He immediately started tap dancing and screamed: "It hurts, it hurts..."
Other students teased him: "Why are you so careless?"
The boy put out the cigarette with his sandals. He glanced at Granny Li who was weaving with her head down. She had retracted her tongue and looked like an ordinary old lady.
He lowered his voice and asked, "Do you feel anything is wrong?"
"What's wrong?"
The boy rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and said, "It's the people in this village. They are a little too enthusiastic."
The people in the village were indeed very welcoming. When they saw them come in, they all smiled and offered them accommodation and food without charging a penny.
This is not the point. The point is that a normal person’s tongue cannot be as long as a lizard’s, and it is even less likely to be forked!
"Didn't the tour guide say that the mountain people are very hospitable?" The other people didn't take the boy's words seriously. "We didn't mean to stay here. We stayed here because it's raining. We'll leave tomorrow when the rain stops."
"That's right." This group of high school graduates were obviously still very naive, and the boys' newly-risen vigilance quickly disappeared: We must respect science, there are no monsters or demons in this world!
Maybe he was just dazzled. After all, sitting on the bus for several hours was really tiring, and he might have been hallucinating.
Together with the high school group, the apple-faced girl and her boyfriend were assigned to another household.
In addition to them, there was the bald strong man who fell earlier and was not wearing a seat belt and his wife with a shrill voice, an elderly couple with gray hair, and a couple who looked gentle and well-educated, a combination of a doctor and a middle school teacher.
When Tan Yue was strolling around, he also took a look at the houses where other tourists lived. The houses in the village were built in a similar way, and the layout of the houses was also similar. Except for the fact that there were no chickens in this yard, there were many large water tanks that looked like they were used to store pickled vegetables.
The owners of this household are a middle-aged couple, who are now diligently chopping vegetables to prepare dinner for the tourists.
Tan Yue stopped and tried to communicate with the middle-aged couple. After all, the old lady was old and didn't speak Mandarin, but the middle-aged couple should be able to understand Mandarin.
The wife stared at Tan Yue's face, then her eyes slid down to stare at the beautiful chin and the slender neck like a swan.
Tan Yue was wearing a windbreaker with a stand-up collar, but one could still tell that he had a very long neck. In fact, the 1.9-meter-tall boy had long arms and legs, and a particularly well-proportioned body, and was as beautiful as a work of art.
It has been a long time since I saw a human being of this quality. The wife's eyes were particularly hot and she was very jealous in her heart: the young man has a really good appearance. He is better than everyone in her yard. It's really a bargain for Grandma Li.
"Auntie, is there something on my face?" Tan Yue was actually very used to people looking at him like that, but this auntie's gaze was a little too much.
The honest husband said in awkward Mandarin: "My wife is mute. Sorry, she is just excited and can't speak."
The husband and his wife were obviously in tune with each other. He chopped the bones with great force, and the chopping board was covered with pig blood.
The man pressed Tan Yue: "How old are you this year? Do you have a girlfriend? Do you want to find one in the tour group? I can introduce you to a girl. The girls in our village are very beautiful!"
Tan Yue shook his head, exchanged a few words with the uncle and left quickly. He was only eighteen years old this year and had his own yearning for love, but he was not yet at the age where he needed to be introduced by others.
The door to the courtyard where the tour guide, the driver and other tourists were was closed. Tan Yue looked out the door, and although he was a little curious, he did not rush in to disturb them.
He has always been a good student who abides by school rules and regulations, and is civilized and polite outside.
Tan Yue didn't have the ability to see through the eyes, so naturally he couldn't see the scene in the yard through the door.
In the large courtyard of the village chief's house, the tour guide, the driver, and the remaining tourists were all soaking in the large water tanks in the yard.
Their hair floated on the water like seaweed, and they all had their eyes closed. When Tan Yue walked near the yard, black lines appeared on his pale face, but if you look closely, you can see that all these black lines are moving.
Dense swarms of insects crawled out of the water tank, covered their cheeks, and slowly submerged the bodies of these "people".
There were only sixteen real outsiders, and the others were the villagers' pets. Under that thin skin, they were all wriggling bugs.
Only the chosen "lucky ones" can enter the Black Dragon Village through a special passage. That door is the junction of the two worlds, and the dilapidated tourist bus is a special vehicle to bring in blood food.
Once it was an ox cart, a donkey cart, then it became a tractor, and now it is a bus.
However, Black Dragon Village is a village with unique beliefs and is very picky about outside guests. The blood-feeding guests have a lot of impurities in their bodies, so they have to be well taken care of and the dirt and pollution in their bodies must be eaten away before they can be offered to the Black Dragon God.
The rain was getting lighter. Tan Yue, who was strolling outside, passed the village gate holding a green and white checkered umbrella. The old man guarding the village was gone. The gate was locked from the outside and locked with an iron chain. Unless he climbed over the wall, he could not get out.
Tan Yue noticed that there were a lot of sharp glass shards on the wall, and the vines on the wall were all thorny.
The buildings here have a unique beauty. In addition to painting, he also has a mini camera hanging around his neck to capture all the pictures he wants to commemorate.
After all, painting takes time, and no matter how fast you sketch, you can't record so much inspiration.
It is now 4:30 in the afternoon and the people in the village are starting to prepare dinner.
The villages still used the kind of country earthen stoves that required fire. Smoke began to float from the chimneys of every household, and along with the drizzle and breeze, one could smell the strong aroma of meat in the air.
Tan Yue ate several oranges while in the car, so he wasn't hungry yet. As he walked, he came to the red house.
Just as he guessed, this place was indeed similar to a clan temple. There were three words written on the plaque: Dragon God Temple.
The decorations on the beams are mostly made of stone, carved with Kuilong patterns and painted black. There are many densely packed stone eyes on the stone. At a glance, one can see that there are hundreds of green stone eyes on a piece of stone.
This should be the Duan Inkstone stone. Tan Yue remembered that the stone eye was one of the unique symbols of the Duan Inkstone. It seemed that the villagers were quite pious to use such expensive stone for the temple.
He didn't think much and walked straight into the Dragon Temple. After all, there was no gatekeeper here. For a tourist, a temple that was not blocked was an open attraction that allowed outsiders to visit.
After Tan Yue went in, those lifelike "stone eyes" changed their positions one after another. These were not stone eyes at all, but small insects with bean green shells.
The Dragon God Temple is very large and the paint inside is all red. The Dragon God statue enshrined on the platform looks more like a muscular centipede with dozens of claws than a dragon. The Black Dragon God also has nine heads, and it is obvious that he is not a serious god.
However, Tan Yue was very polite and he thought about it in his mind but did not show it. Since it was not a common kind of god, he would not burn incense to the Dragon God.
After staying in the temple for a few minutes, Tan Yue walked out. He opened his umbrella. Maybe because the umbrella blocked his vision for a moment, when he was walking back, something hit Tan Yue and knocked him back two steps.
After seeing clearly what had hit him, the checkered umbrella in Tan Yue's hand fell to the ground with a snap. Pink crept up his cheeks, and his face, neck, and ears all turned red, like a ripe pink tomato from Provence.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
Tan Yue quickly reached out to support the person he had bumped into. It was a beautiful young man with fair skin and long hair.
The person who came had very beautiful long hair that fell over her shoulders. Her ebony-colored hair was bound up with a green ribbon and tied into a very heroic high ponytail. She looked very youthful.
He had red lips, white teeth, and jade-like skin without a single blemish, like a porcelain doll.
Looking down, the boy has a very obvious Adam's apple on his neck and a flat chest, so he should be a male.
The boy was wearing the traditional costume of Heilongzhai, but the patterns and the material of the clothes were obviously much more exquisite.
The collar and cuffs of the black clothes were embroidered with Kuilong patterns in gold thread. He wore emerald bracelets on his hands, exaggerated silver ornaments around his neck, and a pair of two-tooth cowhide clogs on his feet.
The boy's toes were also like works of art, with light pink nails and a red rope with a golden cicada tied around his ankles.
In fact, everyone has different aesthetic tastes, but Tan Yue is very clear that in his genes, this face is the greatest face in the world! It is a work of art created by Nuwa!
Before today, Tan Yue had never thought that he might be gay, but the other party's collision really hit him right in the heart.
Whether it was the facial features or the body, the skin and bones, the beautiful boy in front of him, from the hair to the toes, perfectly met his preferences.
This perfect collision must be the muse of inspiration tailored for him by the god of fate and the god of love! It was the rib he was missing! Otherwise, why would his heart beat wildly and violently when he saw the other person!
When I just touched the slightly cool back of the other person's hand, my fingertips felt numb as if an electric shock passed through my whole body!
No matter whether the other person is a man or a woman, how old he or she is, how complicated his or her family situation is, or whether he or she has a partner, these are not important.
Tan Yue's heart was beating violently in his chest and the dopamine secreted crazily in his brain told him that if he missed the person in front of him, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Young people are always impulsive, enthusiastic, and full of courage. Tan Yue blurted out: "Excuse me, do you want a boyfriend?!"
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