There were still a few pieces of frozen beef in the freezer of the refrigerator. Zhang Lisheng took it out, and threw it into a coarse porcelain pot without thawing it. He added cold water, ingredients and medicinal materials, and stewed it on the stove over high heat.

When the beef is cooked for seven or eight layers, reduce the heat and add some secret brown herbal juice at the right time to stew the meat until it is crispy and rotten. A pot of extremely nourishing medicinal food is ready.

This can of medicinal food is different from ordinary medicinal food. It does not smell strong and scented. There are not many special things when you first taste it. However, eating a few more bites makes people feel a wonderful feeling of satisfaction, and the body becomes hot and comfortable.

After savoring the beef stewed with soup and water, Zhang Lichang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his mouth clean, washed his face with well water, walked into the side room of the ancient house, lay on his rough and solid wooden bed, and soon fell asleep.

He slept for more than ten hours until the next morning, and before he got out of bed, he heard the shouts from outside the door, "Mountain bugs, mountain bugs, I am your uncle Ali, please open the door."

Zhang Lisheng hurriedly put on his pants, put on a coat and shouted in his mouth: "Uncle A Lie, wait, I will open the door." He strode to the heavy, old wooden door, opened the door bolt, and opened the door.

Tao Lilin was standing outside the door. When he saw Zhang Lisheng in disheveled clothes, he said in surprise: "What are your kids doing?"

Today I will welcome your dad home. Why haven’t your baby gotten up yet?”

According to the custom of the people of Miaowei, those who die in another place must stay in the dead for twenty-four hours, that is, two days and two nights, and their families will be taken back to their hometown for burial.

Only then did Zhang Lisheng remember that today was the day when he was going to the county town to pick up his father and 'going home'. He hurriedly ran back to the side room of the ancient house, "Uncle A Lie, I've been in a mess these two days, I, I'll go put on my clothes now."

"No wonder you are a fool. Alas, even if adults have experienced such a big event, their minds are not clear.

It’s not my uncle who urges you. Today, in addition to picking up your father back, he also wants to see the driver, traffic police, and insurance company. He doesn’t have enough time to say.” Tao Lielin said while planning to step into the yard of the ancient house, but as soon as he raised his legs, he felt a chill inexplicably, shivered, thought about it and spitting, and then put his legs down.

Since the time when Zhuonwo Village was a Miao village hundreds of years ago, few people have dared to go in alone in the Zhang family gates in all dynasties.

Since ancient times, the folk customs in western Sichuan have been wild and there are many legends. When indigenous mountain people want to welcome their families who died suddenly, according to custom, men and women must wear pants, flowery shirts, red cloth, neck, and wrists to avoid misfortune.

Zhang Lisheng has worn cheap children's clothing that his father bought from a county department store since he was a child. After entering junior high school and getting a school uniform, he has never changed his school uniform and has never worn traditional clothes from Miaowei people.

Therefore, this time he was going to welcome his father's remains back. He did not have clothes that suited the customs, so he could only go to his father's room to search and try his luck.

Although the Zhang family was a father and son who depended on each other, Zhang Daowu has always been harsh in treating Zhang Lisheng. Speaking of which, Zhang Lisheng had never entered his bedroom in his memory.

When he pushed open the door, Zhang Lisheng's heart trembled involuntarily even though he knew that his father was dead.

The light in the room was dark, and the most conspicuous was a huge wooden bed. The material was similar to that in Zhang Lisheng's bedroom, but it was twice as large as the size. On both sides of the bedside, there were large mahogany boxes containing debris, according to the customs of Miaowei people.

Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment, climbed onto the wooden bed, and opened the heavy wooden box at one of the bedsides. He saw that what was placed inside was not clothes, but lifelike animal statues the size of dozens of horns of palms.

He was feeling disappointed, and suddenly he felt the darkness in front of him, and a wild land full of plants and trees suddenly appeared in his mind.

The land even the grass looks three or four meters high, a group of giant warriors with naked upper bodies and a thatched aprons covering their shame, and stone-made swords and axes as weapons are fighting bloody battles.

In the jungle far away in the battlefield, there are countless poisonous insects with huge bodies and hideous fangs. The beasts are eyeing the flesh and blood of the giant warriors on both sides of the battle.

There were four human-shaped giant corpses shrouded in black mist among the insect beasts. They were carrying a huge stone bed. On the bed, it was a dark body as big as an ordinary person. The thin man looked ridiculous and sat cross-legged, with a faint smile on his face.

The illusion flashed and before Zhang Lisheng could see clearly the giants, beasts, giant corpses, and especially the man on the stone bed, he felt that his eyes were dark again and everything had returned to normal.

He shook his head vigorously, and thoughtfully picked up a statue from the wooden box.

The statue was a black pointed venomous snake with a winding body, as if it was playing in the water, and its tail was divided into three forks.

Looking at the statue, Zhang Lisheng immediately remembered a record in the ancient book "Shui Jing Zhu (Ruoshui)": "There was a hook snake in ancient times, with a ten-meter-long body and a fork in the tail. He was good at ducking water, hunting people and beasts with a hook in the water, swallowing and eating them."

One zhang is about three meters, which is three hundred centimeters. A python of ten feet is thirty meters long. If it stands upright, it is almost as high as a twelve floor.

According to modern biology, even if the air is extremely rich in oxygen and large animals dominate the earth, such a large reptile animal could not have appeared. The records of hook snakes in "Shui Jing Zhu (Ruoshui)" are undoubtedly an exaggerated myth in scientific interpretation.

But for Zhang Lisheng, who became a witch, everything is not that simple!

However, it is obviously not the time to imagine the authenticity of the gods. He hurriedly looked at other statues in the wooden box and found that they were also recorded in ancient Chinese books. After the mountain spiders, Qinyuan, Xuanbee, Centipede and other strange insects that could not exist in reality, they locked up the wooden box.

Afterwards, Zhang Lisheng climbed to the other end of the wooden bed, opened another wooden box, and there were many clothes neatly placed inside.

After a quick look, he also found that in the innermost part of the wooden box, there was a brand new set of Miaowei traditional dresses and several ancient red gold collars and bracelets, suitable for his own wear.

I realized that time had been delayed for too long, and Zhang Lisheng didn't care about his surprise. He hurriedly took off his clothes and quickly changed into the seedlings in the wooden box.

Although he was fat, he rolled up his trousers and tied his waist tightly, and then put on his collar and bracelet, and he instantly became a thin young man from Miaowei.

After dressing neatly, Zhang Lisheng ran out of the ancient house with barefoot barefoot.

Tao Lilin saw Zhang Lisheng in a dress outside the door, nodded and said, "You have to get it, you have to get it." Then he pulled him up and ran towards the entrance of the village.

At this time, hundreds of villagers had gathered at the entrance of the village. In addition to leaving one person to visit each household in Zhuangwo Village, almost all adult villagers gathered together. Unlike the young men who went there last time, they were in a playful mood. The trip to Zhang Daowu looked much solemn from the beginning.

‘If a family is in trouble, a hundred families will help each other’ is an ancient custom passed down by the people of Miaowei in difficult mountain life. It is not a joke to be truly implemented.

"Come on the mountain bugs, you sit on the front of the car. Others go up the east, west, south, and north of the village. One, two, three, four, five... the land car fight, don't scatter." From a distance, Tao Lilin pulled Zhang Lisheng and ran over the stone road. An old Miaomin with wrinkles and spirits shouted loudly without a smile on his face.

The old man who spoke was the village chief of Zhuowu Village for 57 years and the branch secretary Tian Jiushi. Legend has it that he once participated in the protection uprising against the Japanese in western Sichuan before the Red China was established, and it was extremely prestigious in the entire Damu Town.

"Yes, yes..." The mountain people heard Tian Jiushi's shouts, climbed onto the truck in a noisy but orderly manner. Even the young man who was most dissatisfied with discipline was very obedient.

However, Tian Jiushi was particularly different when it came to Zhang Lisheng. Seeing Tao Lielin pulling the boy to his side, he shook his head and sighed and said gently: "The mountain bug is coming, Dao Wu is so strong, who knows he is walking in front of my old man.

You are a descendant of the Zhang family in Zhuowouzhai. Today, you will welcome your father."

"Yes, uncle ninety." Zhang Lisheng lowered his head and replied depressedly.

The Zhang family has always been alone in Zhuowo Village and does not rank with other mountain people. Zhang Lisheng has been the same age as the ones, and the older ones are called Uncle and Aunt. He calls him "Uncle" to Tian Jiushi, who is in his 80s and Tao Lilin who is in his forties.

Tian Jiushi did not dislike Zhang Lisheng's name, and sighed again, turned to look at the Taohunting Forest and said loudly, "Ah Hunting, you are old, and you can't go to the county town. Today, I will entrust your baby to do it well and look like you."

When he heard the old village chief calling himself "Ah Hunting" in front of the whole village, many tourists called him "Ah Hunting" and Tao Lielin's face almost turned into red cloth, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only nod timidly and whisper: "Master Ninety, know, I know."

"What?"

"Master Ninety, I know, I know." Tao Lilin raised his voice and shouted awkwardly.

"Don't delay, get in the car." Tian Jiushi waved his hand with satisfaction.

In this way, the old branch secretary of the Chunwo Village gave an order and drove towards the county town with more than a dozen trucks loaded with mountain villagers.

The convoy just passed the Damu Town station and attracted the attention of interested people. On the way, two public security law enforcement vehicles with the words "police" stopped the truck convoy in Chunwo Village.

The police car came out of the police car and the fat and thin, with six police officers all smiling and looking civilized to enforce the law.

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Chapter completed!