Riding the wind of rebirth

"What kind of a nun? That's too ugly! You deserve to be beaten!" Chi Xueli was so angry that she threw a stick at Zhou Zhi: "Just tell me whether you will help or not!"

"Okay, okay." Zhou Zhi reached out to catch the stick and said with a smile, "After two consecutive hits, she should show up more often in the media."

"Can you sing 'Star'?" Chi Xueli handed the guitar to Zhou Zhi: "Today is a good day to sing this song."

Zhou Zhi took the guitar and looked up at the sky. It was indeed full of stars. He said, "I only know the Cantonese part of Teresa Teng's 1982 version. Let me give it a try."

The old-fashioned chords rang out again along with the singing.

"Close your eyes and feel the peace in your heart
I'm afraid to open my eyes again and wait and see the future

The night is cold and the wind is clear. This wilderness
There are forks along the way and I don't know the direction
Ah, no bright moon
Only the stars can guide me astray
Ah. Wilderness Road

The firefly accompanies me alone

Walking Alone
The silence along the way seems to be only the sound of breathing

Walking slowly, I decided to take the rugged mountain path..."

When the song was finished, everyone cheered. As a fan of Guan Tingting, influenced by her singing in three languages, Mai Xiaomiao actually found all three versions of the song and listened carefully. She could also hum along. Now, naturally, she was the one cheering the loudest.

However, Chi Xueli took the guitar again and rolled her eyes at Zhou Zhi: "Your chords are outdated, and you don't deserve your singing."

"It's not like I don't have the basics, so I can't practice more?"

"Huh..." Zhou Zhi thought for a moment, "...I'm going to practice when I have time after retirement."

“Hahaha…” Mai Xiaomiao laughed so hard that she leaned on Zhou Zhi: “Then I’ll have to wait for most of my life.”

"Elbow is just too busy." Old Chiri also laughed. The Yi people naturally love music: "He sings very beautifully."

"Grandpa Chi Ri, come on!" Chi Xueli invited, "I'll accompany you!"

"Oh, this kind of foreign grandpa can't play." Old Chi Ri waved his hands repeatedly: "I only know some old stuff!"

"Just sing as you normally would, and don't bother with me!"

“Then I will sing…”

"Wait! Grandpa Chi Ri, you should sing the ones with similar tunes and rhythms. It will be easier for me to follow..."

"okay."

Soon, the old Bimo's low and melodious singing sounded under the cliff.

As the singing started, everyone felt that neither "Olive Tree" nor "Star" was more suitable for this place than Lao Chi Ri's singing.

Zhou Zhi was no longer completely unfamiliar with the ancient Yi songs. His feelings were much more direct than those of others because he knew that what Lao Chi Ri sang was the beginning of the most famous chapters in the Yi epics, "Song of the Origin of the Ancestors of Heaven and Earth", also known as "Song of Creation".

"After we met, we began to sing the song of heaven; how the sky was born, how the earth came into being; the sky was born from the east, the earth grew from the earth; the sky is empty, the ground is bare; white clouds are the clothes of heaven, the sea of ​​fog is the clothes of the earth..."

The creation song describes the process of the creation of the universe, all things and human beings. It is divided into several parts. The first is "Song of Heaven", then "Song of Earth", and then "Song of the Origin of Humankind"...

Then this can be continued continuously, from the origin of mankind to the Sixth Ancestor of the Yi people, and then to the history of the Yi people, the changes of family branches, production and life, marriage, funeral customs and many other contents, such as the Willow Tune, the Cow-Carrying Tune, the Wedding Tune, the Coffin-Sending Tune and so on, depending on the needs of the situation at the time, it can be sung for three days and three nights and it can't be finished.

The old Bimo broke the song into four lines of five words each, one section at a time. After listening to two sections, Chi Xueli gently plucked the guitar, and Zhou Zhi also began to sing along with a deep male voice. Once the timbre became richer, the feeling of music came out.

Mai Xiaomiao leaned on Zhou Zhi and swayed gently to the rhythm, pushing Zhou Zhi to sway as well. The rest of the people followed suit and soon learned the old Bimo's tune and started humming along.

The sky was high and the earth was vast, the stars were moving, and Zhou Zhi's heart was filled with a magical feeling. Because he suddenly thought that this was not the first time such a situation had happened under this cliff.

Perhaps such scenes started hundreds or thousands of years ago. The Bimos who came here to deliver scriptures must have had times when some people sat by the fire and sang ancient songs.

When they were singing, would they have the same thoughts as I do now, feeling that they were following the ancients, and even touching the revelations bestowed by the stars in the sky and the ancestors of heaven and earth?

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The area below the cliff is very open and, as it faces south, the cliff cannot block the sunlight, so daylight begins to appear in the east very early.

Even if you are not awakened by the light, the sounds of various animals can be heard from the woods on the platform at the top of the cliff.

"The birds are awake." Mai Xiaomiao yawned and looked up at the top of the stone chamber.

Zhou Zhi also opened his eyes and looked at the crude marks carved out on the top of the stone cave: "The sound doesn't sound like a bird."

Mai Xiaomiao turned his head to look at Zhou Zhi, and then laughed out loud: "Elbow, you look like a bandit."

"Don't laugh at me, you have one on your head too."

The sleeping bag is actually quite effective, but it cannot protect the head and face. Although the climate in Liangshan area is warm in winter and cool in summer, it does not include the mountains.

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So Zhou Zhi prepared cotton hats for everyone to solve this problem. They could cover the head and only leave the eyes exposed.

Then Zhou Zhi chose a black one for himself. Mai Xiaomiao was right, he looked like a masked gangster.

As for why the two slept together, it was because Mai Xiaomiao was still a little scared to sleep alone in the stone cave. Also, Zhou Zhi was worried that she would not be used to sleeping and would roll out of the stone cave and fall to the ground, which was half a meter high.

If your own head is hit, it's fine. But if Mai Xiaomiao's head is hit, it will be no joke. He might be cyber-bullied and become a national criminal decades later.

So the two of them slept side by side in a stone cave, each with a sleeping bag. This sleeping arrangement had actually been arranged long ago. There was even an additional person, Jike Azi, at the time. There were no taboos or rules in the wilderness. Chi Xueli, a girl, had done this many times when she was with the archaeological and scientific research teams, so no one was surprised.

"Huh? Could that be a flying squirrel?" Mai Xiaomiao listened for a while.

"It's entirely possible! Maybe they're taking their first morning poop!"

“What you said is really disgusting!” Mai Xiaomiao laughed, but he also opened the sleeping bag and the first thing he did was to take off the practical but ugly hood: “Go and have a look!”

The two men crawled out of their sleeping bags, ran to the yard and looked up. They saw a lot of birds circling and making noises on the top of the cliff. There also seemed to be some animals jumping on the rock wall under the bushes on the top of the cliff, but the distance was too far to see clearly what they were.

"Without a telescope, we can only use a telephoto lens." Zhou Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Wait for me to replace Da Wei's lens on our camera!"

Dawei had already finished yesterday's slow-motion shooting with his film camera, so Zhou Zhi unceremoniously requisitioned his lens.

Relying on the stability of the tripod, Zhou Zhi moved closer to the top of the cliff and took more than ten clicks at a shallow stone cave.

"Did you get it?"

"I took the picture! Come and see!"

Today's digital cameras don't even have an external viewfinder. Mai Xiaomiao put his eyes close to the viewfinder to look at the photo Zhou Zhi had selected: "Wow! It's cuter than a squirrel, and it can actually fly!"

The camera just happened to capture a flying squirrel gliding from the bushes on the top of the mountain to the stone cave, with its limbs spread out in the air, and the flying membrane between its limbs was clearly captured.

"It seems like they really are going there to defecate." Zhou Zhi looked up and said, "They are all flying towards that stone cave!"

Mai Xiaomiao thought of another question: "Grandpa Chi Ri and his men went to such a high place to get medicine? Isn't this too dangerous?" (End of this chapter)