Chapter 126 Flowing Water People (2) The scenic spot is beautiful, and the characteristic is '…
The stilt houses in the Miao village store food on the upper floor, live in the middle floor, and have bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens, and keep livestock on the lower floor. Most of them have four rows of three rooms in a room, and a room has nine pillars.
There are not many Miao villages in the country, but there are many mortise and tenon joints. However, this village is enough to become a key protected cultural relic. The reason is that there are more than a hundred pillars in the village made of golden nanmu.
In the Mohist mechanism, nanmu, camphor, catalpa and cypress are all excellent wood materials for making arrays, and golden nanmu is the top grade. Since ancient times, it has been used by nobles in palaces, altars, temples and tombs.
The nanmu cultural relics that have been preserved to this day are mostly emperors' coffins, such as the Huangchangticun in the coffin chamber of the emperor's mausoleum.
In fact, nanmu also has subdivisions, and the most precious one in the Miao village is the ancient nanmu dark wood that is black on the outside and yellow on the inside, which can only be formed after at least 4,000 years of history.
They can be used to build very good mechanisms and weapons, but they are directly used as beams and pillars, and there is no rule for their arrangement. It may be because they were moved by later generations.
Ye Mo looked at her with a bit of greed: "Wang Xue, can we cut some of the good wood in this mountain?"
"...Is it okay?"
Ye Mo was sure that the reason for the imbalance of Yin and Yang in the Miao village was the Phoebe nanmu, maybe more than that, but the Phoebe nanmu Yinchenmu showed that the imbalance of Yin and Yang in this mountain village was mainly artificially arranged.
These Phoebe nanmu are old woods before the establishment of China, which means that the master may have died hundreds or thousands of years ago, and the confused villagers have passed it down from generation to generation.
This village looks poor, but it is not poor at all. These Phoebe nanmu Yinchenmu are worth a lot of money in the antique world.
There are still other strange places in the village, such as these ghosts.
Some of the dead are people who died in the village, and some are ghosts attracted here from the mountain. The time has been from the Qing Dynasty to the present. But the question is - why are there so many non-Miao dead in the village?
Yes, non-Miao.
In all the fragments of ghost memories from a long time ago, Ye Mo saw ancient scenes similar to studying. Why did these ghosts go through so much hardship to die in a broken mountain village in Yunnan Province?
The ancients may have attached great importance to returning to their roots.
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It was already four o'clock in the morning, and there was no need to sleep anymore. Wang Xue hunted a rabbit that came to her door and a goat under the cliff. She peeled the skin, removed the dirt, added ingredients, and roasted it for today's breakfast.
The Miao village is a little poor, but the mountain is rich in resources, whether it is nanmu, black truffles, chicken fir mushrooms, wild boars, wild sheep, squirrels, deer, and there are wolves, clouded leopards, pythons, etc. next door.
In the past, the village made a living by hunting. Now some villagers have hunting licenses and hunt non-protected animals to maintain basic survival. There are many delicious foods in the village, and they are very authentic.
Poor but not short of food.
Wang Xue rolled the barbecue: "Their main source of income is still hunting and planting. Occasionally, they will wear ethnic costumes and go down the mountain to perform some shows, sing and dance, and go rafting."
How can a normal village be full of ghosts? The undead facing the wall in the courtyard trembled, they felt the devil's death sight again.
Ye Mo took the whole roasted rabbit and tore off the browned rabbit leg meat: "There are too many undead with dementia. We should start with the villagers first. If it doesn't work, we will do a carpet search in the last five days, leaving no grass or tree untouched, and we will always be able to find a breakthrough point." "
Okay."
At 5:30 in the morning, when the first ray of sunlight shone on the earth, the undead in the village drilled into the lowest level of the stilt houses in the village one by one. It turned out that these buildings can not only keep livestock, but also provide protection for the undead.
Wang Xue sighed and said that she didn't plan to stay in the Miao village for long. She would move to a place with strong yang energy after the dungeon was passed. There would be no evil spirits.
Ye Mo:
"..."
The glutinous rice wine of the Miao family was also very fragrant.
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In the early morning, the green mountains were shrouded in white mist.
The voices of the Miao brothers and sisters echoed in the mountains. They were not the kind with lyrics and music. They were probably just a few words of dialogue and a tune that was not a song. The singing was loud and pleasant.
If the Miao village was a yin place at night, with yin everywhere, the Miao village was yang>yin during the day. The hanging buildings on the cliffs were facing south one by one, which neutralized the night.
Ordinary villagers would only feel that it was colder at night and warmer during the day. The temperature difference between day and night was quite large.
In fact, I got sick at night because of the yin energy. The only witch in the village who was also a barefoot doctor could find some "herbal medicine" from the mountains to treat it, or hold one or two worship activities and kneel down to the south.
Wood overcomes yin, light overcomes yin, and silver overcomes yin.
Even if Wang Xue only knew the basic five elements rules, she understood the purpose of the few village rituals she had seen these days. There was really a principle. I wonder if they really understood it?
"I thought they were based on faith."
"In the beginning, it was the faith of the strong. The gods may have been individuals at the beginning."
Ye Mo gave himself a short haircut and slightly processed his face. The main reason was that he didn't wear all the masks in time, so he could only borrow Wang Xue's cosmetics to make trouble before going out with her.
The eagle eye must be hidden in the palm of your hand.
Wang Xue lived in the lowest row of stilt houses in the village. If you go upstream along the stream that runs through the village and climb the bluestone platform, you can pass most of the houses in the village.
The "flowing water houses" may refer to the stream that flows down from the top of the mountain. The water in the stream is crystal clear and is said to be the underground spring water of the mountain, refreshing and longevity spring. When
Wang Xue heard the word "cool", she thought of the refreshing spring water she drank on weekdays.
Ye Mo shook his head: "The undead in the mountain village have not yet affected the material. Don't worry. The water quality of this stream is very good. It is much cooler because it is underground spring water."
Wang Xue made an OK gesture.
The two visited the old man in the village together.
In Wang Xue's eyes, the Miao village is a place where "dragons and crouching tigers are hidden". There are carpenters, blacksmiths, hunters, tailors, embroidery masters, etc. in the village, as well as mysterious witches that can be found in almost every village. Moreover, 80% of these are family businesses.
Visiting these elderly people who run family businesses may be more useful than meeting the village chief who is only about 40 years old.
Visit each family.
Just like what Wang Xue said, these villagers do have some skills, but they are all talking nonsense about the origin of golden nanmu, saying that it was given by gods, Emperor Guangxu, or a witch, etc. It sounds better to say that it was cut by their ancestors.
On the way, they met many villagers from Miao villages. They greeted Wang Xue warmly in Mandarin or dialect with a heavy accent. Most of them had clear eyes and innocent smiles.
Their clothes were mainly made of blue earth cloth, half-length shirts, long sleeves and long pants.
Many girls did have some silver bracelets and silver earrings, but they were not as exaggerated as the Miao golden flowers that Ye Mo saw on TV, and the colors of their clothes were mostly cold white, black, and blue, without bright and gorgeous pleated skirts or wax-dyed skirts.
Wang Xue has traveled to many places by herself. Some villages do have many evil people, but she was reluctant to help and punish them. At most, these evil people would go to the police station to report the case and dare not continue to make trouble.
But she still concealed her real name from the beginning to avoid trouble.
The people in this Miao village are one of the few villages where Wang Xue has felt warm. It has little to do with the amount of her consumption. There are more good people than bad people in the village, and each has a size in their hearts.
Seeing Ye Mo, they were a little curious.
Wang Xue introduced her friend generously. As a special tourist who stayed in the village for two months, she has always been a lone ranger, and the villagers really didn't notice when her guests came.
They would all say, "Welcome to the Miao Village."
For Ye Mo and Wang Xue, the real dungeon is different from other dungeons. The people here are closer to them and live on the same planet as them.
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Finally, they came to the highest row, which is also the hanging building where the witches in the Miao Village live. From where they live, it can be seen that the witches in the Miao Village are different from the witches in the village town and have a high status.
The hanging building of the witches also has four rows and three rooms, with a total of nine pillars, all of which are golden nanmu sunken wood. There is a banyan tree at the door, and under the banyan tree, there is a stone table and several stone benches.
Before entering the hanging building, Ye Mo scanned it from top to bottom, borrowing mental power + eagle eyes.
At the bottom of the hanging building, we found a nest of famous local poisonous snakes such as silver ring snakes, golden ring snakes, cobras, and snow mountain snakes. We suspect that there are no king cobras because they feed on snakes.
In addition to snakes, there are nine cans of poisonous insects, each of which is buried under the golden nanmu sunken wood.
Wang Xue once asked about Miao snakes when she entered the Miao village. The villagers answered that they don’t talk about this, but only make some earth house medicines such as Zhanqi pills to treat diseases. Now it seems that these words are all lies, at least their fortune-tellers are raising pigs.
The second floor is where the witch lives. The bedroom, living room, kitchen, and pharmacy are all clean. There are not many things in them, just basic daily necessities. However, Ye Mo looked at the kitchen cupboard and the pharmacy storage cabinet for a few more times.
They are all made of good wood, and not only that.
As the granddaughter of an antique lover, although Ye Mo has not mixed into the antique business, she has come into contact with many antiques since she was a child, and they are of various kinds, especially porcelain and jade.
The jar containing the Miao blood tofu, if I am not mistaken, is the famous Southern Song Dynasty Longquan Kiln Lotus Leaf Covered Jar, which is worth a fortune. The largest Southern Song Dynasty Longquan Kiln Lotus Leaf Covered Jar in China is listed as a national treasure that cannot be easily exhibited. Ordinary people can only stare at the picture.
The blood tofu jar in the Miao village witch's house is no smaller than a national treasure.
Ye Mo couldn't help but repeat Wang Xue's words: "The scenic spot of this mountain village is beautiful, and the characteristic is poverty."