After sitting down, the wine was poured first. Pi Ying and his mother first offered a bowl of rice wine and three large pieces of meat, which they called "drinking pot wine." Liu Chen and others also took glasses and drank together. During the banquet, Bo Ying and her mother sang again.

The three of them, Liu Chen and Liu Chen, couldn't sing, but they all followed along, humming and laughing. The scene was so lively.

After more than an hour, everyone started to rest after having enough water and food.

The houses of the Hani people are different from those of the Han people. They usually have mushroom houses. Liu Chen and Wang Xiong were led by Bo Ying to climb the stairs from the front door and go directly to the "Bolo Piao", which means the male member's room in Chinese.

Then Bo Ying and her mother led Gu Wanjun into the room through the back door and took her to "Yongma Piao", which is the female room of the female members. In Chinese, it is called the women's room. Those who are not married yet, like Bo Ying, live with their mother.

Live in the women's room.

In fact, there are differences between men's and women's rooms. The men's room has a square fire pit, which is mostly used for lighting, heating, and simmering tea. In addition to lighting and heating, the fire pit in the women's room also doubles as a kitchen. Cooking rice, stir-frying, and pig food are all done in the women's room.

Operation. Boying's mother, Pi Song, was cooking in the girls' room just now.

The Hani houses have low eaves and dim indoor lighting.

Gu Wanjun took out the flashlight he brought and illuminated it. Both Bo Ying and Pi Song looked at Gu Wanjun in surprise. They looked at the small thing in Gu Wanjun's hand. It was quite bright and was about to catch up with the fire in the fire pit.

Boying looked longingly at the flashlight in Gu Wanjun's hand, surprised and curious, and said with a smile: "What is that? It's so bright."

Gu Wanjun and Boying explained what a flashlight was and how to use it.

Boying took the flashlight in his hand, played with it for a while, and returned it to Gu Wanjun with a smile. Looking at this little thing, it is much easier to use than a torch. It can be turned on when you want, and turned off when you want. It is very convenient.

Bo Ying, Pi Song and Gu Wanjun slept on the same bed. Gu Wanjun praised Bo Ying. She spoke Chinese very well and her pronunciation and enunciation were very standard.

Boying told Gu Wanjun that she had never gone to school, but she knew a lot of words and could speak some Chinese, which was all taught by Grandpa Kong.

When she heard about Grandpa Kong, Gu Wanjun became excited and thought, could it be Grandpa Kong Yunxiang? Maybe it is true. Then he must ask Bo Ying to take them to find him tomorrow.

Gu Wanjun quickly asked: "Is Grandpa Kong's name Kong Yunxiang?"

Bo Ying looked at Gu Wanjun's excited expression and shook her head, saying that she was not very clear either, and told Gu Wanjun about Grandpa Kong's situation.

Grandpa Kong lives on a high mountain and seldom goes down. He is a very strange old man with no children. When he has nothing to do, he often catches snakes, insects, rats and ants by himself and makes bottles and jars of medicinal wine. He is very brave and has nothing to do.

Catch wild beasts in the mountains, eat their meat, and use their bodies to make medicinal wine.

Grandpa Kong makes such things day after day and rarely sells them, but as long as someone gets sick, he will help treat the disease and rarely charges money. If someone gives him some grain or something, he will accept it.

Boying and his parents fled here and came here. His father was ill and was cured by Grandpa Kong with a few herbs. Unfortunately, a few years later, his father fell to a cliff and died.

Mother and daughter Boying depended on each other. Boying went to the mountains to collect mushrooms when she had nothing to do. When she passed Grandpa Kong's house, Grandpa Kong would give him some animal meat hunted in the mountains, and she would exchange the mushrooms. After a long time, Grandpa Kong taught himself how to read.

The more Gu Wanjun listened, the more she felt that this was closer to Kong Yunxiang. Could it be that it was really him?

"Then is he still on the mountain? You can take us to look for him tomorrow. We are here to look for him."

Gu Wanjun took Boying's hand and said, feeling extremely excited.

"Okay, no problem, but I'm not sure if I can find him. He goes into the mountains for ten days and a half, and he rarely stays at home."

Gu Wanjun felt that this grandfather was more and more mysterious. It was incredible for a person at such an old age to go to the mountains for ten and a half months, live in the mountains, and sleep in the forests at night.

The two chatted some more and fell asleep soon after.

The next day, in the early morning, Mugu Fang and the terraced fields were submerged under the sea of ​​white cotton-like clouds. The sun rose slowly and the sea of ​​clouds surged. The Mugu Fang and terraced fields were looming in the sea of ​​clouds, like a fairyland in the vast terraced fields.

The churning, diffuse and smudged sea of ​​clouds is like a fairyland, outlining a beautiful picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

Smoke rises from the square fire pit, making people feel warm and cozy at home.

Gu Wanjun likes this kind of house very much. Although it is summer now, she doesn't feel the heat at all. The house is cool and very comfortable.

Soon, Pi Song cooked the food and put it on the table.

Breakfast is porridge, which is to chop lean meat into fine pieces and make porridge with rice, minced ginger, star anise, and grass fruits. There is also glutinous rice cake with some banana leaves. Later, it will be wrapped in banana leaves and eaten with the bacon. Also use

Purple glutinous rice is made into purple rice cakes, and eggs are boiled in purple rice liqueur.

After several people washed up, they sat down and started eating.

This is the first time for the three of us to eat these things. Not to mention, they are quite delicious, especially the glutinous rice cakes, which are soft and creamy, sweet and delicious. We wrap the bacon with banana leaves and eat them together, which has the taste of banana leaves.

It has a delicate fragrance, the sweetness and softness of glutinous rice, and the salty deliciousness of bacon, which together make people linger.

Liu Chen and others ate a lot. After they were done eating, Boying brought earthen pot tea. Earthen pot tea, also known as hospitality tea, is an ancient and convenient way of drinking tea.

I saw Boying placing an earthen pot filled with clear spring water on an iron tripod. After the water in the earthen pot boiled, he added fresh old tea leaves, then continued to add water, and boiled it for two or three times before drinking.

After the tea was brewed, Boying poured the tea into a bamboo tea cup and presented the tea to Liu Chen and others.

Liu Chen sipped the tea. The soup was fresh and strong. It was slightly bitter at first, but sweet again after drinking it. It made people feel that after drinking it once, they would never forget it.

Liu Chen couldn't help but pour another cup of tea and drink it. Bo Ying told everyone that after drinking this tea, it can help digestion, relieve greasiness and eliminate food.

Listening to Boying's introduction, several people drank a few more drinks.

After several people had eaten and drank, it was time to set off. Bo Ying and Pi Song talked about something. Pi Song nodded, meaning that Bo Ying took everyone up the mountain to find Grandpa Kong.

Boying was carrying a backpack on his back. There were machetes, ropes and other things in the backpack. It was almost half a backpack.

Pi Song also presented each person with a big piece of cake and a package of bacon, crispy pork, tofu dumplings and other foods wrapped in banana leaves.

Gu Wanjun gave the flashlight to Pi Song so that she could use it for lighting at night. At first, the mother and daughter said nothing, but after Gu Wanjun's repeated insistence, Pi Song accepted it.

Liu Chen left a few more apples and some mangoes. After pushing and shoving again, the things were finally left behind.

Several people said goodbye to Pi Song and walked towards the mountains.

The mountain road is very difficult to walk in the rugged area. The dense silk thatch grass is very annoying. This kind of grass has strong vitality and excellent toughness. There are also branches blocking the road. If you are not careful, you will be tripped. Boying is holding a machete and cutting through the thorns.

, and several people walked behind.

Boying has lived in the mountains since she was a child. She has been working in the countryside since she was a child. She has climbed mountains and waded over mountains and ridges, so she still knows the mountains well.

Girls in the mountains get married early, and Bo Ying is already 18 years old and has not yet gotten married. First, her father left, which was a big blow to the mother and daughter, so Bo Ying was not in a hurry to get married. She has always been dependent on her mother.

"Look, there are fish in the river." Boying looked at the river next to her. It was crystal clear and the fish in the river were swimming around, she was very happy.

Bo Ying was already used to it. Living in the mountains, there was always fish to eat, especially the rice fish from his own rice fields. He ate it almost all year round. It tasted really good when paired with sour bamboo shoots.

"That kind is called anti-wave fish." Boying told everyone.

When the three of them heard the name, they thought it sounded pretty good. Boying told everyone that this fish is very small, 3-4 inches long, shaped like an arrow, and has a silvery body. It likes to live in deep water fish holes or gravel. Because of this,

This kind of fish likes to swim upstream, so it is vividly called the "wave-resistant fish".

However, this kind of fish is delicious and precious. The meat of Kanglang fish is soft, the scales are small, the taste is delicious, and the fragrance is delicious. Because of its small size and small intestines, there is no need to break the belly to remove the intestines before cooking.

When he mentioned fish, Liu Chen got excited. There were fish in the sky but not on the earth. He had to try some when he came back.

We walked on the mountain road for a while, and soon we saw a house covered with thatch and adobe underneath on a high slope ahead.

Surrounded by mountains, dense forests are verdant, the Little God River gurgling beneath you, humming all the way to the front, the vegetable garden in front of the door is covered with greenery, the shelves are full of fruits, roosters crow on the balcony, and the fragrance of herbs comes to your nose. Here.

It's like a fairyland on earth, so beautiful.

Boying pointed, that was Grandpa Kong's home.

Several people were happy and continued to walk forward.

Soon we arrived at the door of the house.

Standing at the door, I smelled the strong smell of herbal medicine, as if I had entered a Chinese medicine shop.

"Grandpa, grandpa, are you at the top of the house?" Bo Ying shouted at the top of his lungs.

I only heard an old man's magnetic and heavy reply: "Here, is it Yingzi? Come in."

Bo Ying looked at everyone with a smile and said with a smile: "Here, let's go in."

Everyone followed Boying in.

Several people went in and saw a man wearing coarse cloth clothes with gray hair and beard. His bronze face was deeply etched with wrinkles. The wrinkles made his face as rough as a tree. He looked like he had experienced many vicissitudes of life.

?, showing the ruthlessness and vicissitudes of time.

"Yingzi, who are these?" When Grandpa Kong saw Liu Chen and others, he thought they were here to see a doctor.

"Grandpa, they are here to find a man named Grandpa Kong Yunxiang. Do you know him?" Bo Ying looked at Grandpa Kong and said with a smile.

Grandpa Kong's eyes flashed with surprise, and then subsided.

"I don't know, you've got the wrong person. You'd better go down the mountain while it's still dark, otherwise it's not safe at night on the mountain." After Grandpa Kong finished speaking, he started tinkering with his Chinese medicinal materials again.

Liu Chen felt that this Grandpa Kong must be Kong Yunxiang, or someone he knew. From the surprise in his eyes just now, he knew that he must know.

"Grandpa Kong, Grandma You Meiying asked us to find Grandpa Kong Yunxiang. Do you know him?" Liu Chen said quickly.
Chapter completed!