Urban Witcher

The two talked in Miao language, Ye Shaoyang couldn't understand, but they were very friendly, so they should be acquaintances.

Mu Qingyu pulled Ye Shaoyang over, introduced each other, and explained the purpose of coming. Ye Shaoyang learned that this Miao beauty was named Yao Mengxue, and of course they were all Chinese names.

"Hello, please come in." Yao Mengxue greeted Ye Shaoyang in Chinese.

After entering the room, under Yao Mengxue's instructions, Ye Shaoyang put the girl on his shoulders in a bedroom, and then went next door to change clothes.

The four walls are made of bamboo boards. There are several layers inside and outside, so it is airtight. Even the floor is made of bamboo boards, which creak when walking.

Ye Shaoyang changed his clothes and went out to the main room.

Yao Mengxue made a cup of tea for Ye Shaoyang and brought it to him personally.

Ye Shaoyang thought that she was Mu Qingyu's friend, so there should be no problem, so he drank it directly.

Yao Mengxue was very happy, as if it represented a kind of trust, sat down and chatted with Ye Shaoyang, and when they talked about the hanging bamboo house, Ye Shaoyang expressed the question in his heart:

"Why is it that the main building is clearly on a slope, but I can't feel a slight inclination from inside?"

Yao Mengxue said with a smile: "We have a saying here, it's called 'the sky is not flat, if you borrow the sky, don't borrow the earth'."

Explained it in detail.

Ye Shaoyang listened carefully, and felt that this architectural principle, although it was for the convenience of living, also coincided with some principles of Feng Shui.

After chatting for a while, from Yao Mengxue, Ye Shaoyang learned that this mountain village is remote, but it is also covered by mobile signals, and young people usually play with mobile phones, so they added WeChat to each other.

At this time another bedroom door opened, and a man in a black robe came out.

Ye Shaoyang glanced at it, thinking that Yao Mengxue's family was about to say hello when he got up, only to find out that it was Mu Qingyu, who was stunned and looked up and down:

Mu Qingyu was wearing a black gown, black trousers, and a five-sided black hat on his head.

"How is it?" Mu Qingyu smiled at him, "Like a mortician?"

"If you don't smile, you look alike, but when you smile, you don't look alike."

"Then I won't laugh." Mu Qingyu purposely sullenly, looking a little cute.

Ye Shaoyang inquired and learned that this outfit is exclusive to exorcists, black can suppress evil spirits, and the clothes are washed with Gastrodia elata and borax mortar, which can isolate the popularity and prevent corpses from changing as much as possible when exorcising corpses.

Mu Qingyu informed that the girl he rescued had woken up, and asked Yao Mengxue to find a set of clothes and change out the wet clothes on her body.

The two entered the room together, and after changing the girl's clothes, they called Ye Shaoyang in.

The girl had already changed into Yao Mengxue's clothes, leaned on the bed, her face was a little pale, she stared at Ye Shaoyang with a pair of big eyes, and said a sentence in Miao language, seeing that Ye Shaoyang couldn't understand, she switched to Chinese again:

"I remember you, you saved me."

Ye Shaoyang smiled, "How do you feel?"

"It's all right, it's just that I'm a little weak."

The girl looked at him with raised eyebrows, "Are you Han?"

Ye Shaoyang made up an identity casually, claiming that he and Mu Qingyu were friends and came here for a trip, but the names were not made up.

Under his questioning, the girl also told her own situation: her name is Wu Yao, and she lives in a certain Miao village in the upper reaches of the mountain stream, about 30 miles away from Shibazhai on a mountain road.

This morning, when the rain stopped, she went to the mountains to pick vegetables, and when she washed her hands by the mountain stream, she accidentally fell into the water.

She can't swim either. Fortunately, she caught a moso bamboo floating in the water and went down the river.

She floated on the moso bamboo for a long time, exhausted physically and mentally, and finally had no strength, so she accidentally let go of the moso bamboo, just in time to see a ferry passing by, so she was dying and calling for help...

"I've also heard the legend of the river god. At that time, calling for help was an instinctive reaction. I didn't expect that you would really save me..."

Wu Yao grabbed Ye Shaoyang's hand, and her heart was full of excitement for the rest of her life after the catastrophe.

"Which village are you from?" Mu Qingyu asked.

"Small cottage." Wu Yao said.

"Small cottage..." Mu Qingyu thought for a while, "I've heard of this name, but I haven't been there. Are you Shengmiao?"

Wu Yao nodded.

Yao Mengxue looked her up and down, and said, "Look at you, you don't look like a seedling."

For the Miao Village, although the location is not far away, due to the difficult mountain roads and the differences in customs, there is little contact between the Miao and Miao villages.

The seedlings grow deep in the mountains, farming for a living, sticking to the tradition, not going to school, and not speaking Chinese.

Some raw Miao villages are very poor, and they will go down the mountain to beg in the mature Miao villages. Generally, they only give food, and never stay or eat.

Most of the black wizards in Miaojiang come from Shengmiao Village!

Mu Qingyu and Yao Mengxue were born in the local area, and the area of ​​activity is only Shibazhai. They have hardly been to Shengmiao Village, but they have seen many. Wu Yao speaks relatively fluent Chinese, and his speech and behavior are not like Shengmiao. So I have some doubts.

"Our village is very poor. I went out to work when I was sixteen, and it hasn't been half a year since I returned home."

Wu Yao explained and dispelled the doubts of the two.

Mu Qingyu learned that she wanted to go home, and thought that the small cottage was in the same direction as where she was going, so she agreed to go together.

But just as they came in, it was raining again outside, Mu Qingyu suggested to wait and see, it happened that Wu Yao was weak and needed to rest.

Yao Mengxue made her some porridge to drink and let her continue to sleep, the three of them went outside to sit and chat.

Because of Ye Shaoyang's previous problems, Mu Qingyu was distracted and had no interest in chatting, so Yao Mengxue chatted with Ye Shaoyang.

Ye Shaoyang learned that Yao Mengxue was married, her husband was working in Changsha, and she was the only one at home, guarding a few acres of mountain fields, but the recent heavy rain in the mountains made the harvest hopeless, so she waited, if the rain continued, she had no choice but to find husband.

At noon, Yao Mengxue and Mu Qingyu cook together and cook an authentic Miao family meal, which Ye Shaoyang eats very well.

Wu Yao took a nap, recovered well, got up and ate.

The rain hadn't stopped outside, but it was much lighter. The three of them packed up their things, put on their rubber boots, thanked Yao Mengxue, and set out on the road together.

Wu Yao is relatively introverted and doesn't talk much. On the way, Mu Qingyu asked about the situation in the mountains, but she also learned that it was not good: due to the continuous torrential rain, some low-lying villages were flooded, and all the villagers moved out of the mountains.

The small cottage where her family lived was halfway up the mountain, and the situation was a little better, but it was almost unbearable.

There was no means of transportation on the muddy mountain road, so the three of them just walked, and there were no people along the way. Occasionally passing through some villages, most of them went to towns or county towns to seek refuge.

"Brother Ye, Granny Qingyu, I won't go into the mountain ahead, I'll go around from the bottom of the mountain, and it's not too far from my house."

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