Ao Muyang greeted the young man again, no matter what he said, the young man did not react, just looked at the sea alone with his arms and knees.

"What does he seem to be looking for?" Jiang Caoqi asked.

Zhong Cang frowned and said, "I think he is deaf and can't hear any sounds." ”

"How is this possible?" Ao Muyang shook his head, he approached from behind the young man, and the young man immediately turned his head to look at him, his eyes still very alert.

Looking at the young man, Ao Muyang showed a friendly smile and said, "Hi, hello, can you understand Chinese?"

The young man looked at him expressionlessly, still unresponsive.

Ao Mudong was dissatisfied, and said: "What kind of thing is this? What kind of cool is Ma De pretending to be when he was rescued by us? Grass in the end! It's really not okay to throw it back into the sea, let's leave him alone!"

If the young people don't respond, they will be very embarrassed, and they can't take the young people back to China, right?

Zhong Cang went to get a bottle of wine, and he said behind the young man, "Hey, buddy, will you have a drink?"

The young man didn't react, still looking at Ao Muyang.

Zhong Cang raised his voice: "Dude, look at me here, LOOK-ME......"

"LOOK-AT-ME, THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE SAID IN ENGLISH. Ao Wenchang corrected.

The youth still did not respond.

Zhong Cang stomped his foot vigorously, and the young man immediately looked back at him.

Seeing this, Zhong Cang said to Ao Muyang: "I guessed right, he should be deaf, but he feels very sensitive, and he can feel the changes in the environment through the vibration of the soles of his feet." ”

Hearing him say this, Jiang Cao slapped his forehead fiercely and said, "I know, Bajau tribe, this person is a member of the Bajau tribe among the sea nomads!"

Ao Mudong wondered: "Bajau? What kind of nationality is this? Father of the Yao people? I know the Yao people." ”

"If you let the Yao people hear this, they will be beaten. Ao Muyang said, "The Bajau people, this nation has nothing to do with our country, it is a nation in Southeast Asia, the people of the tribe have been fishing in the sea all their lives, and they are called 'sea gypsies', the last marine nomads in the world." ”

Jiang Caoqi nodded and said: "Yes, in fact, the word Bajau means 'children of the sea', and it is also translated as 'servants of the sea god', and Malaysians call them people of the sea." ”

"How did you see that?" asked Ao Muyang.

Jiang Caoqi said: "In order to adapt to the underwater environment and better diving, the people of the Bajau ethnic group will take the initiative to puncture their eardrums when they are children, and they are all deaf. ”

Ao Wenchang shook his head with a smile: "Xiao Jiang, what you said is something about the literature of the stalls, right? I read an introduction about the Bajau people when I was in college, and there is no such thing at all, they can speak and sing, and the Bajau people have a unique folk song, what is it called, what is it called?"

"Iko-Iko, the epic folk song of the Bajau people, if sung uninterrupted, this song can last for two days and two nights. The lyrics record the history of Bajau, including where they have been, what marine life they have seen, and what messages the soul of the sea is transmitting to them, which is very complicated. Jiang Caoqi picked up his words.

Ao Wenchang said: "It seems to be this, you know a lot about the Bajau tribe." ”

Jiang Caoqi said: "When I used to be an anti-poaching volunteer, the captain was a strange man who traveled all over the world, and he used to deal with the Bajau people in the sea. The Bajau people are now divided into two categories, one is the people who have entered the public eye, such as some who now live on the seaside in Indonesia, and the government has built them on stilts and forced them to live ashore. ”

"There is another category, that is, the traditional sea god servants, they will not go ashore, they stay in the sea all their lives, but it is difficult to survive after going ashore, just like people on land will get seasick when they go on a boat, and they will get dizzy when they go on land. ”

Ao Mudong was happy: "Is there such a thing?"

Jiang Caoqi smiled and said, "Yes, the Seagod servants are the orthodox Bajau people, and they have pierced their eardrums since childhood. ”

Zhong Cang handed the wine bottle to the young man, who did not take it, but took a step back vigilantly.

Jiang Caoqi continued: "Actually, it is not difficult to judge whether he is a member of the Bajau tribe, there is one thing that is very interesting, and the public does not know, that is, what do you guess the totem creature of the Seagod's servant is?"

"Shark!" Ao Wenchang immediately reacted.

Ao Muyang shook his head: "Xiao Jiang said that the public doesn't know, it is definitely not a creature in the sea, and the totemic creature they worship should be land animals or birds." ”

Jiang Caoqi snapped his fingers and smiled: "You are so smart, birds of prey, their totems are birds of prey, especially sea eagles!"

Ao Muyang understood what he meant, and Jiang Caoqi wanted to verify the identity of this young man through this.

He looked up at the sky, then waved his arms vigorously.

The queen hovering in the air saw it and flew down quickly, its wings rubbing against the space and making a hunting sound, the sound was silent, it was completely suppressed by the waves, but when it descended, the young man raised his head for the first time.

The queen has a little gold drop to eat every day, and her body has been transformed by gold drops, and her appearance is extremely powerful, and her feathers seem to have a layer of oil, and the sun shines on it.

When its trace was clear, the young man immediately stood upright, and his expressionless face finally showed a change in expression, and he looked intoxicated!

The queen landed on Ao Muyang's shoulder, Ao Muyang stretched out his hand and pointed at the youth, and it took off and flew towards the youth again.

Looking at the tiger-headed sea eagle flying towards him, the young man suddenly knelt on the ground.

Jiang Caoqi went up to him and gestured to him in simple sign language, telling him that the reason why he could be saved was that this sea eagle found him and guided the crew to rescue him ashore.

Knowing what he meant, the young man quickly fell to his knees, with an extremely reverent expression on his face, gesturing with his hands on his head and body, and leaning over the queen with the force of his knees.

Jiang Caoqi turned around and said, "That's right, Bajau clan, this is the Seagod servant." ”

Ao Muyang knew about the Bajau people, but he didn't know much about this people.

So, he looked at this scene in amazement and said, "What's the matter, how can this sea nomad use a fierce dog as a totem?"

Ao Wenchang also wondered: "Yes, according to convention, they should use the fierce fish in the sea as a totem." ”

Jiang Caoqi said: "This is a long story, first of all, from the origin of the Bajau people, according to legend, a long time ago, the most beautiful princess in Johor, Malaysia was washed away in a flood. The king of Johor was greatly grieved, so he sent his most elite guards out to sea to look for him, and gave a death order, and if he could not find the princess, he would not be allowed to return!"

"The guards went to sea with their families, and after many years of traveling on the sea but failed to find the princess, the captain of the guard was ashamed, and led his men and family to never return to land, and finally became the ancestor of the Bajau people. ”

"On the way to find the princess, they still have to communicate with the king of Johor, but there were no telephones and telegrams at that time, so what did they rely on? ”

"In other words, historically, the connection between their entire clan and the land depended on birds of prey, so it was natural to give birth to the plot of bird worship of prey!"