Chapter 102 Colorful Cloud Inn
At this time the driver also jumped down from the car, to check the situation behind the car, there are two eye-catching green traces on the road behind, the end of the traces is not a person, but a stone figurine was broken by the car, with the size of a real person in general, the stone figurine is not strong, only a layer of stone shells on the outside, the middle is all empty, was crashed into a number of debris, which crawled out of the densely populated white worms, countless worms by the wheel was crushed to pieces. Numerous insects were crushed to pieces by the wheels, and on the ground there was a lot of green juice coming out of the bodies of the dead insects, a disgusting scene that made people want to vomit.
The driver looked underneath, raised his foot and stepped on a few of them, cursing the bad luck, where did such a rotten rock full of maggots come from, knocking the car into a large piece of flat.
Shirley Yang from the car window pointing to the ground a stone piece, said to me: “Old Hu, you see this stone figurine is imitation of the shape of the Han Dynasty, could it be the product of the period of King Xian?”
I nodded my head and said, “Indeed there is some resemblance, but how come the stone figurine only has layers of shells? With so many bugs packed inside and crushed by the car, it’s no longer very recognizable from its shape alone, so it can’t be concluded that it’s something from the Han Dynasty.”
I raised my head and looked upward from the car window, ten thousand feet high cliffs, surrounded by clouds and mist, and could not see from which cliffs fell down, maybe this nearby mountain, there are some ancient monuments, it seems that we have entered the year when the King of Consecration’s sphere of influence, but how did this terracotta man grow so many maggots in it?”
The more I think about the more unsettled I feel in my mind, I asked the tea vendor has not met this situation before. Tea vendor said: “Such stone figurines, more in the vicinity of Chalong Mountain, are buried in the soil, sometimes catching landslides, occasionally revealed, inside are full of fat maggots, some people say that this is a kind of ancient humanoid coffins, but are rumors, do not know exactly what purpose, the locals are very disgusted with this kind of thing, think it is a sign of inauspiciousness, foretells the disease and death, today’s ride encountered, count us in the car, we have to be careful. I encountered it on the bus today, so count us unlucky, and I’ll have to go to the Jade Palace in a few days to ask for a silver talisman to keep us safe.”
I worry that too keen attention to these things, will be seen to be broken, then no longer ask more questions, only with the tea vendor to talk about some of the local customs, Chalong Mountain is already the edge of the Bai Autonomous Continent, there are Bai, Han, there are very few Jingpo with the Dai, the most lively festivals in March, between the time of all the men, women and children gathered to the point of Cangshan Mountain, with all kinds of songs singing temple fair program, very lively.
I’m not interested in these half, and he chatted a few words, the peak of the conversation turned, and then said to the Chalong Mountain, I took the name of catching butterflies and asked the tea vendor the topography there.
The tea vendor said that although he was a local, but “Chalong Mountain” mountain range, like a boundary marker here, few people over the mountain to the opposite side, there are many poisonous insects and fog, mosquitoes breed, the valley is humid and stuffy, the barrier gas does not dissipate all year round, there have been a lot of people disappeared there, the locals are not willing to go there, another is that the “Chalong Mountain”, the local people are not willing to go there. “Chalong Mountain” is too high, above the snow line, the weather is changing, hail, heavy rain, wind, etc., come and go, just now also sunny day, the next moment there will be bad weather, if there is no large group of people, want to climb the “Chalong Mountain” is very risky.
Since the driver smashed inside all maggots after the stone figurines, the car speed slowed down, he must be worried about hitting that kind of thing inauspicious, so try to drive the car a little smoother, coupled with has gradually left that section of the cliffs on the dangerous road, we are finally relieved, the fat man also came to life, just to hear the tea vendor that a few words, couldn’t help but ask: “Hey, what mountain, sounds a little like the year of the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain, the mountain. Sounds a little like the Red Army climbed the snowy mountains? I wonder if it’s the same one?”
I said to the fat man: “The Red Army climbed Jiejinshan Mountain, and this Chalong Mountain is not the same thing, but also far to the north, but you just saw the Lancang River’s cliffs and rapids, and not far away from the Jinsha River is almost the same, if you want to strengthen the study of traditional thinking, you can jump down to swim around, to experience the Chairman of the poem Jinsha water beat the cloud cliffs of the warmth of the meaning of the poem, and then climbed over the Chalong Mountain, as if it was the long march road. retracing the Long March and climbing the snowy mountains over the grasslands.”
The fat man said: “The warrior’s feet walk the world, the four cross the Chishui out of the strange soldiers, the Wujiang River moat heavy flying across, soldiers in Guiyang against Kunming, which are in the fold, to walk the Long March Road, you have to start walking from the beginning of the real, from the halfway to go which into it? You’re obviously opportunistic tendencies.”
Between our gossip, the car stopped, the tea vendor rushed to greet us get off, to go to Chalong Mountain, get off from here recently, in addition to the three of us and the tea vendor, at the same time get off here, there are two other local women, one more than thirty years old, carrying a small child, the other sixteen or seventeen years old, are wearing a scarf on the head, wearing a rusty flower apron, they are wearing clothing is white bottom, the locals to the white for the noble, should be all Bai ethnic group. Should be the Bai ethnic group, but these minorities are not in our imagination, all day long dressed in floral appearance, not festivals, not dress, plus here are a variety of ethnic minorities, sometimes it is not easy to distinguish.
I didn’t want to travel with these people, but the enthusiastic tea vendor told us that in sparsely populated areas, we should travel in pairs to help each other, which is a local custom.
Shirley Yang used to work often and the Native Americans deal with, know these local customs, outsiders had better comply with, otherwise it is easy to unnecessary conflict, so they will be with these three peers.
This area, all high mountains and deep valleys, lonely people, heavy forests, walking all over the rugged mountain trails, circling and twisting, the original place from the car, from the “Chalong Mountain” is still a long way, I was secretly glad that, thanks to the locals did not go their separate ways with these people, or else it is really not easy to find the right path.
Walked in the mountains for more than two hours, finally arrived at the “Chalong Mountain” under, there is no residential village, then some quarrying workers also live in a little farther away from the mountain, there is only one for the tea business merchants to come here to do business, to provide food and lodging in the inn, with our counterparts in the two white women, is this “color cloud inn” owner, is out to buy things back, here a trip out of the mountains is very difficult, so to buy a lot of things at once, big packages and with a child, I and the fat man learns from the thunderbolt, not only carrying their own dozens of pounds of equipment, but also to help them carry rice and chili, to the place, has been tired of sore back and legs.
Inn in addition to our six, and then no one else, the locals are very simple, never lock the door out, there are passing guests pass by, you can live in it, water in the tank, pots of bait cake and rice, eat and drink enough to sleep until dawn, when you leave the money in the rice bowl, has become a commonplace behavior, no one ever ate or stayed after the money is not given.
White women with children is “color clouds inn” owner, is a young widow, sixteen or seventeen years old girl is her husband’s sister, is Han Chinese, small name peacock, a pair of big eyes, very lively and lovely, wearing national dress, than the local children look much better, “Chalong Mountain” under only they can here! “only here they can rest and stay, from here to the south a day’s walk, where the production of a kind of” fog top gold thread incense tea “, often merchants to go there to buy tea, every time you pass by, are inevitably to be in the” colorful clouds Inn Every time we passed by, we would inevitably have to stay at the “Colorful Cloud Inn”.
The boss’s wife is extremely grateful to us to help her move things, as soon as we entered the door with the peacock for us to build a fire to cook tea and cook, it did not take long for the peacock to bring out the tea, the fat man took over a smell, praised: “really fragrant ah, small sister this is what kind of tea? Is it the Yunnan specialty Pu bait?”
Peacock said to the fat man: “No, this is our local mountain produced fog top gold thread incense tea, with the water flowing down the snow line brewed, each piece of tea is like gold made, you taste it, is not very good.”
Fatty said, “don’t drink to know good, also don’t see who brewed the tea.” Said the words pulled out cigarettes, divided between me and the tea vendor, while drinking tea and smoking, waiting for the boss’s wife to give us a meal.
Fatty intends to show off his knowledge in front of the peacock, and touched another packet of Red Tashan to the tea vendor said: “Brother do you know, smoking is also pay attention to collocation, we just smoked a cloud of cigarettes, and now change the Red Tashan, which can be a different flavor, so there is a name in the capital, called to do the Tashan is not down cloud is always in.”
Peacock is not interested in the fat man’s theory of cigarettes, but is very curious about the insect net we brought, asked Shirley Yang: “Is it going to go to the side of the dragon wall to catch butterflies.”
Shirley Yang was unwilling to lie to the little girl, so she had to let Fatty explain again. I was worried that Fatty would speak without a plan and reveal his faults, and that this kind of work of inciting the revolutionary masses would be better done by me, a person who has the potential to be a political commissar.
So I told Peacock that the three of us, are from the capital, working in the Museum of Nature, specializing in the collection of rare butterflies in the world, this time is specifically to catch butterflies here, and then to be made into a specimen, to bring back to Beijing exhibition, so that those who come to our great motherland of foreigners to open their eyes, see what kind of butterflies in Yunnan, not only fill the blank of the country’s butterfly specimens and other areas of research, but also to bring glory to the country, to the country. Not only can it fill the gaps in the research field of butterfly specimens in China, but it can also bring glory to the country, generate income for the country, strive to realize the four modernizations as soon as possible, and create a brilliant future in the new long march of reform and opening up. From all perspectives, this is a great cause for the country and for the people, it is a strategic and highly sophisticated scientific research, and its significance is no less than the human moon landing program.
Can’t think of my words, not only let the peacock listen to the excitement, even fat and tea vendors are listening to silly, tea vendors asked: “Buy buy sa sa sa, so things hard to whole Karma …… I mean Hu Shi ah, this butterfly has such a great value? Then I don’t sell tea, and you go catch together, OK?”
Shirley Yang wearing sunglasses on the side, listening to me on the peacock Hu Kan, forced to hold back to prevent themselves from laughing out, look at her appearance is really a few points like a female agent of the Kuomintang, as if it is laughing at me to see how I end up.
I secretly bad, this time to say too much, hastily said to the tea vendor: “This is well, the revolutionary work is not high and low, only the revolutionary division of labor is different, pouring tea or to catch butterflies, are for the construction of the four building bricks and mortar, less who can not be, we are all socialist gongs and nails, if you put down your own work to catch butterflies, that we are the people of the country can not just look at the butterflies not to see. If you give up your job to catch butterflies, then we can’t just watch butterflies without drinking tea, can we? In fact, foreigners also like to drink tea, tea culture has a long history, there is a wide range of tea culture enthusiasts all over the world, the Chinese people’s old friend, Prince Sihanouk is very much like to taste tea, so that the pouring of tea is also very important, very meaningful work.”
At this time the peacock’s sister-in-law greeted the peacock to help open the meal, I also took the opportunity to stop and no longer say, ate some randomly, then alone outside the inn with binoculars to watch the “Chalong Mountain” situation, only to see that the tallest peaks straight into the sky, on both sides of the steep cliffs, rolling, without end, and can not distinguish the top of the mountain gathered is white clouds or snow, the clouds and mist here! Or snow, here is really a lot of clouds, and is a clear level, the waist of the mountain began to have wisps of green smoke and mist, the higher the clouds thicker, are stopped by the mountains, cohesion, the mountain is a light green granite, the entire Chalong Mountain’s main peak, like a white crown and green armor of the warrior, standing in the sea of forests.
Under the sea of forests, waterfalls and soil forests, a beautiful native natural scenery, the mountains and rivers in the vicinity, and the human skin map depicted on the roughly the same, just behind the sea of forests in this mountain, deep in the valley, is that we are looking for the “dedication of the King’s Tomb”, as for the tomb inside there is no “雮 beads As for whether or not there are “雮尘珠” inside the tomb, I really don’t have any certainty.
Think of the evil “痋术”, as well as the road to see the stone figurines of maggots in the hemp flies, the heart of the “Tomb of King Xian” can not help but produce a little bit of fear of the psychology, but both come to peace, has arrived at the “Chalong Hill “In front of, then there is no retreat, the back of the matter is only to pray for the blessing of the master of the golden touch.
Tea vendor tomorrow morning to set out to buy tea, after the meal directly into the room to go, seize the time to sleep and rest, fat man and Shirley Yang after dinner, also out for a walk, with me looking up to the mountains ahead, in the pouring of “dedicate the tomb of the king” before how to go over the towering “cover the dragon mountain”, is a big problem, but also a big problem, is a big problem. Dragon Mountain”, is a big problem, see this steep and lofty mountains, three people are worried about the brow.
When the blind man and other people are looking for a local guide, after a treacherous trek before crossing the snowy mountains, if there is no guide on the mountain, is very dangerous, but we just asked the color cloud inn boss lady, on the “Shading Dragon Mountain” of the locals, have long been dead, these years, the legend of the mountain is haunted, no one dares to go up again.
When we are struggling to find a solution, but heard the peacock said: “want to go to the Chalong mountain side of the valley to catch butterflies, under the Chalong mountain there is a tunnel, you can put rows of downstream from the mountain through, no need to go over the mountain, but there are a lot of dead people there, often haunted.”