Chapter 151 Chapter Thirty-Fourth The Longmen Formation on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road

Plum Tea's eyes were dull and dull, and it was probably true that he was blind.I sighed bitterly, afraid of what would happen, I was about to go to the mansion in the deep mountain, and there was another accident.Li Xiaobei threw his bulging backpack on the snow, sat down with plum tea, and then asked him what he felt uncomfortable besides his eyes.He fell into the cold pond just now, plum tea was covered with scars, if he really wanted to care about it, he would feel uncomfortable all over. I guessed: "Did you fall into the abyss just now and hurt your head? I heard that there is congestion in the brain, and the eyes will be temporarily blind."

These words were intended to appease Meizicha, so that he would not think of going elsewhere, but Li Xiaobei continued, "Xiaolu, you are usually very smart, why are you so stupid now? This must be something weird in the mountains. Lao Mei and his son It’s the same, they’re all bewitched!” Mu Qingxiang didn't know how to comfort others, but instead added to the situation: "It's not wrong, the obstacles set by my aunt have worked on him." I hurried to Meizicha and patted him on the shoulder, telling him not to worry, maybe he will recover soon.After all, Meizicha was a man, and his panic was only temporary, but he quickly stood up majestically, wanting to be the first to walk into the forest.Now we can't leave Meizicha here alone, and if we send him out of the mountain, we have to go back to face the tea ape. The only choice is to take him with him.There are only four of us. Being separated will weaken our strength, and we might all fall into the mountains.

The forest is between several mountains, and it is not too big. If the forest is peaceful, it can take up to two days to reach the end.After several considerations, I decided to bring plum tea with me, and just take care of him when something goes wrong.Meizicha went to the mountains to save her son, and Mu Qingxiang had something to do with it. After thinking about it for a while, she could only let Meizicha follow along the way.I recalled the situation in the valley, besides falling into the abyss, being with plum tea all the time, I couldn't help worrying that I would also go blind. Plum Tea sensed our mood, and patted our chests openly, saying that blindness is nothing, and life is the most important thing.His son has been blind for so many years, he had long wanted to experience his son's pain, and today he finally got his wish.In the end, Meizi urged us to go into the forest quickly, or it would be dark.We stopped being polite and pretended to be polite, and set off again.At the same time, Mu Qingxiang broke off a strong branch and handed it to Meizicha for wayfinding.

The exit of the valley is on a cliff, so we can climb up and see the end of the forest.To enter the forest, you have to walk down the cliff along the ancient brick path, so that you can turn to the forest.Looking into the distance, there are many hills and hills, stretching for thousands of miles, and the ancient trees are covered with greenery, but it reveals an evil spirit.Since ancient times, there must be monsters in high mountains, and monsters can be born in steep mountains.As I walked, I looked towards the dense forest, lest there be more powerful monsters waiting for us.Looking back, the valley has returned to calm, and there is nothing crawling out of the abyss, which makes us finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The ancient brick path meanders down from the edge of the cliff, and occasionally climbs higher on the way. There is no guardrail beside it, and one will fall if one is not careful.After leaving the exit of the valley, the ancient brick path became narrower and narrower. Let alone two people walking side by side, even walking sideways alone would be difficult.Li Xiaobei couldn't bear his addiction to alcohol, and took a few more sips. When I saw him, I reminded him not to drink, lest his legs tremble and he would fall to his death in the wild mountains. Li Xiaobei said indifferently: "There is nothing to be afraid of death, eighteen years later you will be a man again!"

I laughed and said, "That's not necessarily the case. If you are reborn in Thailand, maybe you will be a ladyboy in your next life, and of course you may be a woman!" Mu Qingxiang didn't indulge this time, she persuaded with me: "The terrain here is dangerous, it's better not to drink." Li Xiaobei put away the jug obediently, leaning against the rocks and walking in the front, the ancient brick path gradually ascended and penetrated into the clouds and mist.This ancient road is very strange, but the mountain here is so dangerous that it can only be detoured like this.The cliffs here are dangerous everywhere, and the terrain behind a valley is elevated. It is too dangerous to climb down directly, and you will lose an arm or a leg if you don't die.

The four of us walked slowly back and forth. We wanted to put the plum tea in the middle, but he refused to say anything.Today is different from the past, Meizicha is already blind, even with a cane in hand, it is impossible to walk without someone's support.I have worn out my mouth, and plum tea refused to go to the middle, and insisted on walking at the end.I couldn't help it, so I reluctantly accepted the plum tea, but I didn't know why he wanted to walk at the end. Mu Qingxiang took out a rope and asked us to tie it around our waists, otherwise we wouldn't know who got lost on the way.Li Xiaobei took the rope and was very willing, but this was Mu Qingxiang's idea, he didn't have the nerve to refuse.While we were walking on the relatively wide ancient road, the four of us tied the ropes and became veritable "grasshoppers on the same rope".

Li Xiaobei couldn't help asking: "Why do you have to tie the rope? If anyone falls, won't everyone be pulled down? You can't be so blind if you live and die together?" I walked cautiously, and answered, "Do you know what the path you're walking on now is? It's the Ancient Tea Horse Road. The most famous path on this path is..." "Longmen Formation!" Meizicha answered. In fact, there are only two ancient tea-horse roads, one is the Yunnan-Tibet Road and the other is the Sichuan-Tibet Road.The stops along the two roads are different, but both eventually enter India, Nepal and various parts of South Asia.The Ancient Tea-Horse Road to Yunnan-Tibet is a legend compiled by the groom gang, and the Ancient Tea-Horse Road to Sichuan-Tibet is a tragedy written by porters.In short, the two ancient roads have their own characteristics, creating a thousand-year-long mysterious ancient road in Southwest China.

The ancient tea-horse road in Mengshan and Ya'an areas is the most arduous one. There are many deep mountains and valleys along the way.The phrase "The road to Shu is difficult, but it is difficult to go to the blue sky" is a good description.Carrying husbands is the hardest way to make a living. People call them "carrying children" in Sichuan dialect.This kind of hard work must be organized by someone to prevent the porters from dropping their buns halfway.Generally, porters pick up jobs during the slack hours of farming. They work in groups of seven or eight, and leave after receiving the tea bag.Each tea bag weighs about 20 catties. People with medium strength carry ten to twelve bags, and those with strong strength carry fifteen or six bags, weighing more than three hundred catties.

My grandfather told me many stories about porters. In addition to men, there were even women and children among those porters.They memorize less, earn less, and their situation is even more miserable.When the porters set out, the food they took with them was a little cornmeal or steamed buns, and a little salt.On the way, the porters each held a T-shaped cane, commonly known as a kidnapper, to support the tea bag to rest.Because the load is heavy and the ancient road is narrow, it is not convenient to sit down. The porters have gone through mountains and ridges, hanging bridges and plank roads, exposed to the sun and rain, wind, frost and cold, and have suffered all kinds of hardships.This is not bad, sometimes when walking, the Ancient Tea Horse Road will set up a dragon gate formation, and no one will talk for the rest of the day.Looking back, there were no people there, and they fell down the cliff—this is the Longmen Formation on the Ancient Tea Horse Road.It was not until the 1950s, after the completion of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, that the backs of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road gradually faded from the valleys and slopes of the Sichuan-Tibet bamboo slips.

However, the Longmen Formation left on the Ancient Tea Horse Road still exists. In 1944, a group of porters fell to the bottom of the mountain inexplicably, leaving only one survivor.This incident has been passed down among the tea people so far. It was a known Longmen formation, and there may be many more who died.Porters sometimes tie ropes around their waists for safety reasons, so that no one will suddenly fall.But this method does not work, and occasionally people mysteriously fall down the mountain.However, there was no sense of pulling on the rope, and no one knew when the incident happened, as if the porter's body suddenly shrank and slid down the mountain. When Li Xiaobei heard this, he said he didn't believe it, but his face turned livid.Seeing that the ancient road is getting higher and higher, and there is no downward trend, we all wonder if we have entered the range of Longmen Formation.Mu Qingxiang said that this ancient road is seen to be rarely traveled by people, and I don't know which porters came out, maybe they didn't even carry tea bags. I was a little afraid of heights. Seeing the cliff rise up, the underground forest was like a bonsai, and my legs softened involuntarily.Li Xiaobei is not much better than me, besides weak legs, he also wants to vomit.Thanks to the amount of wine he drank just now, the stench of the thing he spit out made us sick too.The ancient road became more and more dangerous. We almost walked sideways and slipped the snow on the ancient bricks several times. I tried not to look down the rocks, and in order to divert my attention, I asked Mu Qingxiang if she had walked this ancient road before.As soon as these words came out, Mu Qingxiang answered in a wrong way, and kept suspecting that her aunt might be right in front of her.I've actually thought about this too. Old man Baimu couldn't have committed suicide. If someone entered the mountain, it's very likely that it was my aunt.It's hard for me to imagine that my aunt is really my mother, let alone that she killed someone.If she is really my aunt, why didn't she find Mu Qingxiang after leaving the mountain, and now she chooses to return to the Qionglai Mountains at this time. Mu Qingxiang walked to the second position, she turned her head and asked me: "If my aunt really killed someone, what would happen to you?" Although I don't have deep feelings for my mother, blood relationship is a very peculiar thing, and it is difficult to answer the question raised by Mu Qingxiang.As I walked along the rocks, I replied: "If she really did those things, then I will not spare her! But it is uncertain now, maybe it was Yangchishan who did it? Didn't Lin Tu say that?" Well, after his father became a lunatic, Yang Chishan has already run away, and his whereabouts are still unknown." Li Xiaobei walked in the front, turned around and said indifferently, "That's what Lin Tu said himself, maybe they killed him, so they had to make up an excuse and lied that he ran away." I shook my head and said bluntly, "It's impossible. If no one secretly forced Lin Tu, he wouldn't have told us those old things. There's no need for him to lie to us. Besides, who would believe such things? , Lin Tu won't worry about us getting out." Mu Qingxiang walked on the dangerous road, facing the steep rocks, she was not afraid at all, instead she seemed to be walking on flat ground.Hearing that Li Xiaobei and I were arguing, gradually getting a little gunpowder-like, she called us to be quiet.I was just discussing the matter, and I didn't want to blow Li Xiaobei's head off. I was trying to defend myself, but I heard Li Xiaobei yelling "Hello, hello, hello" in front of me. I asked suspiciously: "What are you doing, is your tongue swollen?" "Behind you..." Li Xiaobei couldn't see the back clearly, and stammered anxiously. I thought to myself what happened in the future, could it be that the tea ape caught up, it shouldn't be so unlucky.The ancient road here is too small, if you really want to fight, you will definitely suffer a big loss.At this moment, Mu Qingxiang winked at me and told me to turn around quickly.For a moment, my whole body was cold. There was a quarrel just now, and Meizicha didn't say a word.I turned my head and saw that the rope behind me was loosened from time to time, and the plum tea had disappeared.