The years when I was Captain Jin

Chapter 387 Feast of the Baiyue Tribe

It may be because there are too many of us. As soon as we entered the village, we were discovered by the people in the village. Everyone climbed down the stilted building and began to watch us like watching a monkey show.

However, these Baiyue men were all shirtless, revealing dark and shiny muscles, while the women wore flowered cloth skirts, and their hair was covered with gleaming silver hairpins.

I have never been stared at by such a large group of men and women, and their eyes are like curious babies, which makes me feel uncomfortable.

On the other hand, the fat man traveled all over the world and was used to such scenes. He took out two pieces of chocolate from his backpack and stuffed them into the hands of several children: "Hi, folks, you've worked hard..."

Looking at Fatty's appearance, I wished that the group of villagers would respond that the leader had worked hard, so he would be reconciled, so I kicked him hard to tell him not to make a fool of himself.

I don't think it's the way to go on like this. Who knows if it will cause any conflicts, so I asked a kind old man, "My fellow, is there a village chief in your village?"

"What did you say?" The old man looked puzzled.

I was about to ask a little louder, but the fat man pushed me away and scolded: "You idiot, these people look like aborigines, where do you go to find the village chief, if you want to ask, they are all patriarchs, leaders .”

After finishing speaking, the fat man enthusiastically held the old man's hand and smiled, "Grandpa, is your patriarch here?"

"Yes, yes, it's in the stilted building at the back..." The old man replied.

"Ding Dang, 56 ethnic groups and 56 flowers, do you think we should visit the compatriots of the ethnic minorities?" The fat man rubbed his growling stomach, then looked at me.

I know what the fat man means, he is addicted to gluttony again, and he wants to get some game in the cottage to improve his food.But we just escaped from the blue-faced monster, and drove the mountain road for a long time, and some people are really tired at this moment!
In addition, we don't know much about this place yet, if there are native Baiyue people leading the way, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

Thinking of this, I went back to seek Uncle Ming's opinion.

Unexpectedly, Uncle Ming and I would go together, he smiled slightly and said, "I'm seriously injured, I should find a place to take care of me."

Seeing that Uncle Ming and I both agreed, the fat man hurriedly took out his cigarettes and scattered them to the surrounding Baiyue residents: "Master, we are the geological team sent by the country to measure the topography of Mount Li. We want to see your patriarch." , do you always lead the way?"

"well."

The old man nodded again and again, then hunched over and led us to the largest stilted building.

To my surprise, when we showed our identities, those onlookers did not leave. They still followed us in groups, pointing at us, and speaking a lot of indigenous words that we could not understand. .

There are also a few big men with tattoos, looking at us with a strange light in their eyes!

I want to ask the elders, what are they talking about?
I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that since entering the cottage, the old man's expression has been tense, as if he was cautiously guarding against something, and the old poles behind him also put their hands on it intentionally or unintentionally. on the handle.

When I asked him, the old man took a puff of tobacco and said: "These people should speak the authentic Zhuang Dong language. This Zhuang Dong language can be traced back to the pre-Qin period and has almost been lost. It may be difficult for non-locals. Understood."

After listening to the old man's words, I couldn't help but start to worry. What if we meet the patriarch later and we can't communicate?
But judging from the old man who showed us the way, there should be people who can understand Chinese in this village.

The entire stockade is not big, we climbed up along the narrow path, and soon came to the stilted building where the patriarch was.

It seems that someone has already notified the patriarch in advance. As soon as we came to the Diaojiao Building, an old man who was no different from Han people greeted us enthusiastically.

He shook hands with us excitedly and said, "Welcome, welcome!"

We also pretended to be real experts and professors shamelessly and began to greet the old patriarch.

The fat man said in an official tone: "My countryman, we are sent by the state to do a little investigation in Lishan! I didn't expect the road in Lishan to be so difficult. We have been lost in this mountain forest for four or five days, and we are almost hungry. I'm dizzy, I finally met you, a group of hospitable fellow villagers today."

I saw that the fat man revealed the meaning of wanting to eat inside and outside the words, so I glared at the fat man and motioned him not to go too far.

On the contrary, when the old patriarch heard that we were very hungry, he pulled a woman and said a lot of words that we didn't understand, and then the woman led the residents to get busy.

I didn't know what they were going to do, so I was thinking about how to bring the topic to the topography of Lishan Mountain. I didn't expect the old patriarch to be very hospitable and insisted on dragging us to the Diaojiaolou for tea.

Now that we have all come, we have climbed up the stilted buildings with a height of three or four meters, and poured a cup of fragrant tea unique to ethnic minorities into our throats. We only felt refreshed, and the exhaustion in our whole body disappeared.

The old patriarch told us that this kind of fragrant tea is brewed with honey from the mountains and various wild flowers, and only VIPs can enjoy it.

When the tea was half-drinking, the old patriarch called the tribe to serve us various foods that had never been seen before.

There are glutinous rice in bamboo tubes, as well as fried badger seeds, spiced quail, and so on.

Seeing so much food, the fat man drooled immediately.

Uncle Ming coughed again and again and said, "Fellow townsman, isn't your hospitality too generous? How can we be embarrassed?"

However, the old patriarch waved his hand and said righteously: "Everyone, don't see outsiders, treat this place as your own home! There have been inspection experts passing by us before, and we always treat them like this."

Speaking of this, the old patriarch said to the two women who served the dishes: "Go and vacate a stilted building, clean it clean, and lay out brand new bedding, so that the experts can live comfortably tonight."

Seeing the simple and unpretentious face of the old patriarch, I was deeply moved in my heart!

Although these isolated ethnic minorities have no culture, they are so sincere and kind, much better than those wolf-hearted guys in big cities.

We have been to many remote places, and met many enthusiastic fellow villagers, but we have never seen the old patriarchs so enthusiastic, and they were all moved to tears.After all, some of us are tired and we need time to recuperate.

I thought about it, I must give the old patriarch some more money or daily necessities afterwards to repay his kindness.

At this time, the fat man yelled at us: "I said, have you talked enough? Fat man, I'm about to faint from hunger. What are you doing? Let's eat first, and chat while eating."

Looking at a large table of unnamed wild game, I was actually a little hungry, but after all, I was new here, and I couldn't be as thick-skinned as a fat man, so I could only stand up. Looking at other people, it was similar to my situation.

The old patriarch saw our embarrassment at a glance, laughed and motioned for everyone to move.

As soon as he heard that he could finally eat, the fat man was like Zhu Bajie descending to the mortal world, he didn’t care how ugly the food looked, and immediately started to gobble it up, while grabbing the fried golden yellow and oily badger thigh, he said to us: "Eat this, this, delicious!"

I was also moved by what the fat man said, and I picked up some wild vegetables that I had never seen before. To my surprise, the game in this mountain is really fresh, and the taste is very unique, with an indescribable crispness. , Can't help but eat a lot.

(End of this chapter)