() It was past seven o'clock at this time, and the sky was almost dark.
At this time, the Brightness Project had not yet been implemented, so it was naturally impossible to have electric lights in Yunzhai. At this time, every household was lighting gas lamps or candles in the main room, and some just lit fire pits, with men smoking and chatting nearby.
The daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law were sitting next to her, sewing.
The group of people walked towards the outside of the village. When they passed a house, they couldn't help but stop when they saw the lively scene in the main room.
There is a burning fire pit in the main room of this family. There is a wooden table in front of the fire pit. A woman in her forties, wearing a traditional Miao costume, is sitting behind the wooden table and leading a group of people around.
There, another woman in her thirties was standing at the door with a solemn expression, holding incense in one hand and burning paper money in the other.
Jiang Jingdong watched with interest and asked in a low voice: "What are they doing?"
"The boys in this family are going away to study," Lao Shi replied in a low voice, "so I am asking for safety in Tiaoxian."
"Dancing Immortal?" Jiang Jingdong saw that several people were interested and continued to ask in a low voice: "Is it okay for us to stand around and watch like this?"
"It's okay," Lao Shi shook his head and replied, "There's nothing taboo about this. Just don't get too close and don't make too much noise."
So a group of people stood at the door of someone's house and watched the strange scene.
At this time, the woman in her thirties had already burned the paper money in her hand. Then she walked into the main room and threw a stack of paper money into the fire pit, which made it burn even more vigorously.
The woman in her forties then took out a stack of paper money, then turned her back and did something unknown. She suddenly let go of the silk handkerchief on her head and covered her eyes. She put her hands on her knees and her feet began to shake.
After yawning three times, he started singing a song he didn't understand.
However, Lao Shi was very considerate and immediately explained the gist of the song in a low voice.
"Summoned the immortals and masters, and called out the immortal sisters.
Team up and set off to the ghost world to help find introducers in the human world.
Where is the way to the underworld? Which way is the way to the ghost country?
…”
After saying a few words and seeing that everyone was no longer interested, Lao Shi stopped explaining the increasingly lengthy ballads and began to explain what this activity was.
Dancing with the Immortal is a very common belief activity among the Miao family. It is usually because the family encounters some major events and needs to find the Immortal Lady to divine good or bad luck and to ward off harm and avoid misfortunes.
The woman in her forties is Xianniang, and the woman in her thirties is her assistant.
Xianniang is a woman who obtained divine nature in Miao family legend. Their religious activities are also divided into two categories. One is the dancing of immortals in front of them. Xianniang herself communicates with her ancestors through these rituals by singing "Ci of Dancing Immortals".
, to obtain good and bad information. The other type is the so-called Jumping Seven Sisters, also called Jumping Seven Fairies. The fairy leads seven ordinary women to go to heaven to communicate on their behalf by singing "Song of You Tian" to obtain good and bad information. The second type is naturally very difficult.
It's high, and generally few people do it.
The ceremony was still going on, and the fairy girl kept singing different songs, and occasionally asked the host to answer a few sentences.
The group of people looked at it for a while, but didn't see anything, so they felt a little uninterested.
Lu Jiangan said that he might as well stop watching. Jiang Jingdong agreed, so the group of people walked out.
After leaving the village gate, the sky was dark, the wind was not strong, and the starlight was sparse.
When hunting at night, the most dangerous thing is to accidentally injure your own people, so the group of people stood and discussed it first.
Fengchuiling, the top of Jinxiang Mountain, is actually a cliff. From Yunzhai to there, there are mountain forests rising slowly, where you may encounter various prey, including big cats such as leopards.
So Jiang Jingdong made the decision to climb to the top first, and then come back more slowly, hunting on the way back.
Hunting is a daily activity for the Miao family who live in the mountains, so there is no shortage of firearms. Lao Shi took three shotguns from his family, all of which were relatively new Tiger Head brand double-barreled shotguns, and carried them on his back, as well as those of Xu Wei and Uncle Chen.
, adults all have weapons.
As for the two children, they were naturally empty-handed, but Lu Yang did not forget that he had a handle crossbow in his bag. He had already taken the time to load the crossbow arrows.
Jiang Jingdong distributed bullets to the three gunmen carrying Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, but agreed not to use them unless they were hunting large prey such as wild boars.
Then eight people lined up in a small team. Lao Shi led his hunting dog and Lu Jiangan to the front, followed by Jiang Jingdong, Xu Wei, Jiang Yuan, Lu Yang, and finally Uncle Wang and Uncle Chen, and started to set off towards the destination.
In order to save batteries, only Lao Shi, who was leading the way, and Uncle Wang, who was behind, were using flashlights.
Lu Yang didn't have much experience running up to such a high mountain at night. When he was a child, he was with Jiang Yang in Yunzhai.
The wind blew loudly along the way, and there were strange and strange sounds from all directions. Lu Yang didn't feel scared, but rather excited.
On the side of the mountain forest farm near Yunzhai, the Miao family often come to hunt, and naturally there are few prey. Soon everyone reached the foot of the Fengyun Ridge stone cliff without any danger.
"Hey, it seems that there is no harvest tonight," Jiang Jingdong said with some loss of interest: "Old Shi, it seems that you are usually very diligent, and you can't even hear a wolf howl."
"Secretary Jiang, don't worry," Lao Shi comforted him, "Let's walk around when we get back. There are still a lot of prey on both sides."
The cliff at Fengyun Ridge is extremely steep and it is not easy to climb up. You can only climb up slowly from the cracks in the rocks.
The place on the top of the cliff is not big, with only a little thin soil, some turf, and even few shrubs, so there is almost no danger.
Lao Shi, who had been there countless times, was inconvenient to hold his dog, so he couldn't talk about it at the moment. Uncle Wang and Uncle Chen were not interested in going up, so the three of them stayed here and waited for them to come down from the summit.
So only Lu Jiangan and Lu Yang accompanied Jiang Jingdong, Jiang Yuan and Xu Wei up.
The crack in the stone was only wide for one person, so in many places one had to use both hands and feet. Lu Jiangan took the lead, Jiang Jingdong followed, Jiang Yuan and Lu Yang followed, and Xu Wei cut off the tail at the end.
Along the way, Jiang Yuan was very calm and walked in front with steady steps, but Lu Yang was very depressed.
It’s no use trying to find a chance to hold the little hand in front...
But now the opportunity finally came. Just a few dozen meters up, Jiang Yuan was on a very steep rock wall. The pair of sneakers suitable for long walks under Jiang Yuan's feet were a bit difficult in this place, and she almost fell down when her feet slipped.
Lu Yang, who had been highly focused, quickly stretched out his hand, and the nephrite Wenxiang fell into his arms.
Unfortunately, there was no time to experience it carefully. Before Xu Wei took action behind him, Lu Yang quickly pushed Jiang Yuan forward and let her grab Jiang Jingdong's hand.
Fortunately, there were more than one such opportunity along the way. After hugging Jiang Yuan's delicate body for the third time, Lu Yang almost thought that the other party was creating opportunities for him, and couldn't help but hug Jiang Yuan quietly before pushing out.
But then there was no chance again. Jiang Yuan walked extremely carefully and did not slip again.
Forty minutes later, all five people climbed to the top of the cliff. Here, they could overlook the entire Jinxiang Mountain during the day. At this time, they could only hear the whistling of the wind, and their eyes were filled with darkness.
"It's a pity it's too late." Jiang Jingdong shined his flashlight on the opposite side, but couldn't see anything. He turned off the flashlight and said with regret in his voice, "I can't see anything."
"Yeah, it's too dark now. If it's morning, the clouds and mist here will look like a fairyland. If it's night, the golden light will shine like heaven."
Like Xu Wei, Lu Jiangan also turned off the flashlight. He had been here dozens of times and knew the scenery here well. He said with relief: "Secretary Jiang, come back when you have the opportunity."
"Haha, how can I have so much time? This time I am taking a break from my busy schedule." Jiang Jingdong shook his head in the night and said, "Besides, Yuanyuan and the others are going back to Chongshan tomorrow, and I am not in the mood anymore."
"That's it..." Lu Jiangan's tone was also regretful.
Lu Yang, who had been standing silently without speaking, was savoring the breath of the beautiful woman next to him in the strong wind at the top of Fengyunling Mountain.
Hearing Jiang Jingdong's words, Lu Yang suddenly felt that something was about to fly away from his world. The feeling of emptiness was very uncomfortable.
Maybe it was because of the few glasses of wine he drank at night, or maybe because of his wildly beating heart, Lu Yang's right hand quietly stretched out and held Jiang Yuan's jade hand beside him.
Jiang Yuan was wearing a hat on her shoulders. She didn't know whether it was because of the cold night wind or because she was leaving for something else. Her hands were cold and cold. Suddenly, her left hand was held by a big warm hand, and she was shocked.
Then she realized whose hand that hand belonged to, and Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered the several contacts she had just had, especially the last tight hug. The base of her ears, which had been burning frequently since she met someone, immediately started to feel hot.
At this time, Jiang Yuan's first thought was that fortunately in the night, no matter how red her face was, she didn't worry about being seen.
The night was too dark, so Jiang Yuan turned around and tried hard to see the expression of the boy beside her, but she couldn't see anything clearly. She just felt a faint feeling of loss there.
The big hand holding Jiang Yuan's small hand suddenly straightened up a finger and started writing on the back of her hand.
The uncovered part of her hand was still a little stiff from the cold wind, but at this time, Jiang Yuan's senses were so sharp for some reason that she almost didn't feel them carefully before those two words came to mind.
'Don't forget!'
Her breathing was unsatisfactory and her heart was beating disobediently. Jiang Yuan's mind was buzzing at this time, as if it was blown into her mind by the strong wind of Fengyun Ridge, and she could no longer feel anything else.
There was a word that did not pass through the brain at all, but suddenly emerged from the bottom of Jiang Yuanxin's lake, swam across her mouth and jumped out.
"Um……"
Fengyun Ridge is worthy of the word "wind and cloud". Even in this summer night, there is a lot of wind.
Lu Yang could no longer hear the conversation between Jiang Jingdong and Lu Jiangan who were just a few meters to the right. In his ears, he could only receive the response that sounded like a mosquito at this moment.
Xu Wei has been habitually paying attention to his surroundings. The night was too dark and he couldn't see the little movements of Lu Yang and Jiang Yuan.
But at this moment, Xu Wei saw Lu Yang's eyes beside him, suddenly bright and shining, and he was suddenly confused.
Tightening his hand, Lu Yang held the jade hand that was about to leave him. He lowered his head and held his breath, put his right hand behind his back, and changed his left hand to hold Jiang Yuan's left hand.
Lu Yang's right hand gently went around and wrapped around Jiang Yuan's slender waist.
