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Chapter 168 The Village
Cui Shu stood in the distance, looking at the vanishing carriage, raised his hand and touched the talisman on his chest, only lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking.

The guard behind him deliberately made a few jokes. Lang Jun actually took things from the lady of the Liu family this time. Treating her is a bit different from the little lady next to her...

But looking at the expression of his father, he still swallowed the words in his mouth.

After a while, the guard stepped forward and interrupted Cui Shu's thoughts: "Langjun, shall we set off?"

"Okay." Cui Shu responded.

Green waters and green mountains, see you in the end.

He walked to the horse, turned on his horse, whipped his whip, and rushed into the drizzle and the slanting wind.

After leaving the territory of Shaoyang, without the wind and rain, the road behind is much easier.

It took He Lingjiang and his party another six or seven days to travel to Nanzhao by way of Kunzhou.

Although Nanzhao has unified the Six Zhaos, there are many tribes among them.

The Aning tribe is one of the 37 Wuman tribes in Nanzhao. It is located in a remote area. It is only a day's walk from the surrounding area to the southwest, and it is about a day or two away from Yinsheng.

Most of the Nanzhao tribes are wary of people from other places.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived here, He Zheng spent a lot of money to find a local guide. With the guide, it would be much more convenient for them to stay here or inquire about news.

It was almost evening, and the guide received the benefits and did his best.

After he took He Lingjiang and his party out of the village, he asked them to wait here, and then he headed into the village and went to find the patriarch to discuss.

When the patriarch heard that someone from Zhou came to stay for the night, he was not happy.

They belonged to Dazhou in Nanzhao, but they paid a lot of tribute every year.

The tribes are already difficult, but every year they have to take out a lot of things, waiting to send them to the Great Zhou court.

Because of this, he has a lot of headaches every year.

Therefore, the patriarch of the Aning tribe did not have a good impression of the Great Zhou court, even the people of Great Zhou, and always felt that they were only those who would only oppress and plunder.

"Yo, old patriarch... why do you still remember this..."

With a slight wrinkle on the guide's face, he persuaded him, "That group of people just came to Nanzhao to travel, and they didn't have any bad intentions."

He took out the things in his arms and put them on the table: "Look, they are not stingy."

"With this money, the houses in our village that need to be repaired will be settled?"

The patriarch looked at the belongings on the table and frowned.

"They're really just here to travel, don't they have any bad thoughts?" The old patriarch was still a little worried.

"Put your heart in your belly. I can take a closer look. Although there are quite a few of them, four of them are women. Except for one black and strong, the other three are helpless chickens. power."

"Because of this, I brought a few followers to protect me."

"I see this group of people, they're just children from a wealthy family in Da Zhou. They just wandered around and looked around because of the money in the family..."

The old patriarch looked at the belongings on the table, and thought about the heavy rain a few days ago, and the houses of many people in the village had to be repaired.

He finally nodded: "Okay, just call them in."

The guide had a smile on his face: "Look, what are these people going to do at night?"

There are also people in the village who have vacant houses. The old patriarch thought about it and had a plan in his heart: "You just ask them to come in. As for the resettlement, I will go to the people in the same village later. Say."

"Okay, then I'll go and call them." The guide replied with a smile, then turned around and went outside the village to invite He Lingjiang and the others to come in.

The Aning Department is located in a mountainous area, with high mountains and steep slopes, and the roads in the village are not easy to walk.

The guide found someone to look after them, and then led He Lingjiang and a group of people to the village.

The weather in the mountains is cloudy and rainy, humid and foggy, and it is not suitable for living.

This wooden building is built on a slope, and the ground needs to be cut into an earth platform of the desired shape. The bottom of the earth platform is supported by long wooden columns, and then a section according to the height of the earth platform is installed with cross beams and beams, which are parallel to the earth platform.

The lower one is about two or three zhang, and the tall one is four or five zhang.The roof is covered with fir veneer or green tile, smooth and tight.

He Lingjiang walked all the way, and saw buildings on stilted stilts, either leaning on the mountains, or beside the water, high and low, scattered.

She had been to the land of Nanzhao with her master, and she was not surprised by this kind of dwelling, but Poet He was connected with Aman and a few of them, and she watched it with relish.

Seeing that they were interested, the guide said, "This is our local stilted building. It is humid in the mountains. This wooden building is supported by pillars and away from the ground, so it can be kept dry and ventilated."

Aman blinked and asked curiously, "I see that each of your wooden buildings has several floors. How do you live here?"

The guide smiled and explained to Aman: "Our wooden building is generally divided into three floors. The upper floor stores the valley, the middle floor houses people, and the bottom floor is fenced into a circle to store debris or keep livestock."

"With this arrangement, the space of the wooden building is very well arranged..." Poet He smiled and sighed, the life wisdom of this barbarian should not be underestimated.

It was rare to see outsiders in the village. Even though they were all covered up, they didn't look so eye-catching, but the guide led them all the way, and He Lingjiang and the group were still very eye-catching.

The old man who was sitting on the wooden building and resting on the railing saw him and asked, "Wuda, who did you bring back?"

The guide who was called Uda replied loudly: "It's a guest from out of town, and he's about to take it to the patriarch's house!"

"Oh! It's actually a guest from out of town, so today is the village going to hold a banquet?"

Although they are somewhat xenophobic, the Aning Department has always been reluctant to let unexpected people come in.But if they can be sincerely accepted by the clansmen and enter the stockade, they will be guests, and they will have to be entertained.

"Yes!" Uda laughed, "When the time comes, come and sit together..."

Hearing what he said, the old man suddenly regained his energy and stood up and said, "Then I'm not being polite. Let me tell you... This song of persuading guests to entertain guests is the best song in the entire stockade."

"Yes." Uda nodded in agreement.

They spoke the local language. He Lingjiang had been to Nanzhao before, so it was not difficult to hear the local language.

One of the guards was also specially selected and was proficient in Nanzhao language.

But the rest of the people, although they have traveled all the way and have been learning for a long time, they have only listened to them and said a few rough sentences.

Poet He looked up and saw that the old man waved at them enthusiastically, and he seemed to say something like hosting a banquet and entertaining guests.

He happily waved back.

He Lingjiang glanced at him: "You are so happy..."

"That's right." Poet He nodded proudly, "Look, people are so enthusiastic about us, we can't be too estranged, right?"

He Lingjiang chuckled lightly: "The old man told you to drink more alcohol at night... I remember that your alcohol intake is not very good..."

(End of this chapter)